Campaigns and Intervals (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Campaigns and Intervals

Beyond the frontier at last! Yet, as we wake to find ourselves stretched out in our cramped hay loft, it is an effort to remember that Alsace lies asleep close by remember it and feel glad of it. Our bodies are weary, our minds dusky 7 then, all at once, the thought that the regiment has really started strikes home. Up we leap, half dressed, strange beings rising swift as resurrected creatures out of the hay about us, bemoaning the stiffness of arms and l...