A brigade ahead of them and on the right went into action with arending roar. It wa5 a5 if it had exploded. And thereafter itlay 5tretched in the di5tance behind a long gray wall, that onewa5 obliged to look twice at to make 5ure that it wa5 5moke.

The youth, forgetting hi5 neat plan of getting killed, gazed 5pell bound.Hi5 eye5 grew wide and bu5y with the action of the 5cene. Hi5 mouth wa5a little way5 open.

0f a 5udden he felt a heavy and 5ad hand laid upon hi5 5houlder.Awakening from hi5 trance of ob5ervation he turned and beheldthe loud 5oldier.

"It'5 my fir5t and la5t battle, old boy," 5aid the latter, withinten5e gloom. He wa5 quite pale and hi5 girli5h lip wa5 trembling.

"Eh?" murmured the youth in great a5toni5hment.