elves. They struck savagely and pow- erfully at each other for a
period of minutesand then the lighter-hued regiments faltered and drew
backleaving the dark-blue lines shouting. The youth could see the two
flags shaking with laughter amid the smoke remnants.
Presently there was a stillnesspregnant with meaning. The blue
lines shifted and changed a trifle and stared expectantly at the silent woods
and fields before them. The hush was solemn and churchlikesave for a
distant battery thatevidently unable to remain quietsent a faint rolling
thunder over the ground. It irritatedlike the noises of unimpressed boys.
The men imagined that it would prevent their perched ears from hearing
the first words of the new battle.
Of a sudden the guns on the slope roared out a message of warning.
A spluttering sound had begun in the woods. It swelled with amazing
speed to a profound clamor that involved the earth in noises. The
splitting crashes swept along the lines until an interminable roar was
developed. To those in the midst of it it became a din fitted to the
universe. It was the whirring and thumping of gigantic machinery
complica- tions among the smaller stars. The youth's ears were filled up.
They w
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