Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1918 — THE VOICES OF BULLETS. [ARTICLE]

THE VOICES OF BULLETS.

One hnndred/steps more would have brought me insdde of Cantigny. But I was doomed never to enter Cantigny; just then I went into a shell hole. The reasons that made me drop into the shell hole were, I think, two. For one. there was in the crater r a wounded boy, a boy shot through the shoulder, together with three hospital corps men who were starting to dress him, and I went in with some vague idea of offering help. But also something was after me by that time. I had not, noticed it at flret; that is, when finally I became aware .of if, it was the knowledge that it had been going on for quite a while. Little “zips” were passing by me; small, short whispers, hardly attaining the volume of sound, and gone almost, .before they were heard —discrete, quick, little zips like the lightest of pencil strokes—zip, zip. zip. ami zip. z NJw and then, though, just as brief, one reached a higher volume of sound, .something like a short cat meow, but more resonant. Pee-a-oo-oow! —thus—a spiteful cry. Some sharpshooter was after me, some ambushed Boche who did not approve of Collier’s Weekly. That is really wh* I dropped into the shell hole, I think—not so very much to help the three hosultal corns men.— James Hopper in Collier’s. .