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Whizz! Boom! Bang! Crash! Wump!

"It's just as well," mused the Brigade Major, turning in his sleep about three o'clock the following morning, "that they warned us about the deceptive sound of the shelling here. One would almost imagine that it was quite close. … That last one was heavy stuff: it shook the whole place! … This is a topping mattress: it would be rotten having to take to the woods again after getting into really cooshie quarters at last. … There they go again!" as a renewed tempest of shells rent the silence of night. "That old battery must be getting it in the neck! … Hallo, I could have sworn something hit the roof that time! A loose slate, I expect! Anyhow … "

The Brigade Major, who had had a very long day, turned over and went to sleep again.