Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line; Or, The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam

Copyright, 1919, by Cupples & Leon Company
Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line
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“There’s a German on the ground! Get him!”
The sun glistened on scores of polished bayonets, as sturdy figures, clad in olive drab, which matched in hue the brown of the earth, sprang from their trenches and rushed forward.
“Put some pep into it! Lively now! Get the Germans!”
There were dull thuds, and there was a ripping, tearing sound as the steel slashed its way through the tough cloth. Along the swaying line rushed the young soldiers, stabbing to right and left as they went.
Now their weapons were directed downward with deadly force, and they sank them into the forms on the ground with such energy that the earth beneath was torn and gashed, and the muzzles 2 of the guns, to which the stabbing bayonets were attached, made deep impressions on the yielding forms.
“There’s a German on the ground! Get him!”
Again the cry rang out, and again the rushing, charging line surged forward, and then there followed once more the thuds which told of the cold steel going through and through and––
Then from the center of one of the charging lines there came a laugh as a lad, having driven his keen weapon home with too much force, being unable to free it, raised on his gun a large sack stuffed with hay, the fodder bristling out of one of the gashes he had made.