As soon as there is room the shovels follow the picks.
In picking the men should be instructed to strike together to avoid accident.
Under pressure this pit can be constructed in one and a half hours.
THE GERMAN GUN-PIT.
The German gun-pit consists of a rectangular excavation one and a half feet deep, with a ramp leading to it from the rear. The epaulement is formed like an ordinary glacis, and surrounds all but the entrance.
This pit is easily and rapidly constructed, and, as seen from a distance, presents a very small target.
The parapet being the same height all round, the gun can fire in any direction by widening the pit, which would then take the form of a semicircle.
Construction.—1. Lay off a line four yards in length perpendicular to the direction of the line of fire. At each extremity erect a perpendicular of four yards.
2. From the vertices of the right angles thus formed lay off one yard on both the front and side lines, and mark the four points so determined, together with the rear extremities of the sides, with sabres or stakes.