Lieutenant Ducoux with the Magpie "Anatole" in Malancourt-wood.
Bullets whistle loudly and clip the earth around us—the leaves, the new and pretty leaves of the wood, flutter and fall in our midst like in the sad days of autumn——
Quiet comes again. A big German officer has the nerve to leap on the parapet of the trench very close to us, and shout:
"Well done, Seventh Engineers!"
His attitude seemed to imply: "You are in no danger now." He then jumps back quickly into his trench.
The wounded in due time are cared for and taken back——
Work is finished for the day!