"The Argonne?" suggested young Knickerbocker.
"Yas, yas, dem's de woods—d'Argonne."
"You know our division was the first to break the Hindenburg line, colored boy," explained the 27th man.
"Was it you wot did dat trick? Y' know boss, we felt dat ol' line sag 'way down in d'Argonne."
WILLIS—"Did the war do anything for you?"
GILLIS—"Sure did. It taught me to save peach-stones, tin-foil, newspapers and all kinds of junk. In fact, I can now save anything except money."
Just before the St. Mihiel show the Germans blew up an ammunition dump near a company of Yanks. It was reported that there was a large quantity of gas shells in the dump, and as soon as the explosions began the Americans immediately made themselves scarce with great rapidity.
When the danger had passed all started drifting back with the exception of one man who did not appear till the next day.