When window panes were smashed his feathers bristled up and his frail little body began to tremble——
I placed the cage in the machine that takes me to Bar-le-Duc—Repeatedly during the journey the bird cries:
"To Hell with the Crown Prince!"
It is surely Habert who has taught him this new "song"——
[CHAPTER SEVEN]
THE RECAPTURE OF FORT DOUAUMONT AND THE ATTACK OF PEPPER HILL
The author assisted in two important episodes of the great war. On October 24, 1916, he flew over Fort Douaumont with Major Armengaud at the precise moment the poilus swarmed over it after eight months' of incessant battle. The first men who entered Douaumont were the same sappers of the 19th Company, 2nd Engineers, with whom the author fought at Grande Dune. (Chaps. I and III.)