Chapter

IV.—­SOME SAMPLE EXCITEMENTS OF LIFE IN THE TRENCHES

V.—­THE LIGHTER SIDE OF TRENCH LIFE

VI.—­THE “MAKE” OF A BRITISH TRENCH

VII.—­THE RUSE OF A GERMAN SNIPER

VIII.—­THREE DEATH TRAPS

IX.—­GERMAN BEASTS IN A FRENCH CONVENT

X.—­ANOTHER SCENE OF BOCHE BRUTALITY

XI.—­THE TRICK THAT DIDN’T TRICK US

XII.—­THE BARRED ROAD TO CALAIS

SKETCHES

Private Harold Harvey Frontispiece

ABOARD THE TRANSPORT

BIVOUAC AT MALTA

CASEMENT GARDENS, MALTA

SERGEANTS’ MESS

ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT, MALTA

ON THE QUAYHEAD AT MARSEILLES

QUAYSIDE, MARSEILLES

FORTY PASSENGERS IN EACH CATTLE TRUCK

A WASH AND A WAIT

“Doomsday book”:  A French lesson in A cattle truck

LADY ANGELA FORBES’S SOLDIERS’ HOME AT ETAPLES

ROAD TO THE TRENCHES

MY SKETCH-BOOK

MAP:  LA BASSEE-ST. JULIEN

OUTSKIRTS OF A VILLAGE

MY FIRST SNIPING-PLACE

CAPTURED GERMAN TRENCH

THE WOODCUTTER’S HUT

TYPICAL FIGURES AND FIGURE-HEADS

“Hammersmith bridge”

“Dirty Dick’s”

“Entrenching” The piano

“Seventy-five hotel”

CHICKEN FARM

A FRENCH COMRADE-COMEDIAN

A TRENCH SNIPER, RESTING

A TRAVERSE

THE BIRTH-PLACE OF A SONG

TRENCH PERISCOPE IN USE

“The white farm”

A GERMAN SNIPER’S NEST

“Suicide bridge”

“Suicide signal box”

A GHASTLY PROMENADE