"Hi there!" he cried in a louder voice, but no answer came back.
"There was somebody with me but he's gone now," he said to Bubb when he reached him where he stood along with Benners and the sergeant beside a dark pond near the ruined cottage.
"Well, we had better try and get back to our billet," the sergeant remarked. "Damn these beastly fields! We'll be damned unlucky if we don't get out o' 'em."
They got into the farmhouse at eleven o'clock. All their mates were in bed and the watch-dog at the gate bit Bubb in the upper part of the thigh as he came in.
CHAPTER III
IN LOVE
As I was going up the road
Ma'selle said, "Voulez vous
Come in and have some pain et beurre
And café au lait for two."
So now I hope the war won't end;
I'll never go away
And leave my little Madamoiselle
Who sells good café au lait.
I hope the war will never end,—
A curse upon the day
That takes me away from Madamoiselle,
Who sells good café au lait.