A thin voice said abruptly, “They’re moving—lookit— They’re moving, I tell you—lookit—” They all looked then. A little crackling noise as of burning thornsticks Began far away—ceased wholly—began again— “We won’t get it awhile,” thought Ellyat. “They’re trying the left. We won’t get it awhile, but we’ll get it soon. I feel funny today. I don’t think I’m going to be killed But I feel funny. That’s their whole army all right. I wonder if those other two felt like this, John Haberdeen and the corporal from Millerstown? What’s it like to see your name on a bullet? It must feel queer. This is going to be a big one. The Johnnies know it. That house looks pretty down there. Phaëton, charioteer in your drunken car, What have you got for a man that carries my name? We’re a damn good company now, if we say it ourselves, And the Old Man knows it—but this one’s bound to be tough. I wonder what they’re feeling like over there.
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