Line 3.0.0 for aid. The enemy : heard - his

Line 3.0.1 cries and began to search, but did

Line 3.0.2 not find him.

Line 3.0.3 He lay for hours between the

Line 3.0.4 American and German lines under

Line 3.0.5 a constant artillery barrage.

Line 3.0.6 , A party of American medical

Line 3.0.7 men found him later and prepared

Line 3.0.8 to take him back, but the Ger

Line 3.0.9 mans had seen the rescue attempt

Line 3.0.10 and sent a fusilade of bullets in

Line 3.0.11 the direction of the stretcher

Line 3.0.12 bearers, one oi whom was nit on

Line 3.0.13 the hand They were without

Line 3.0.14 weapons and had to fall back,

Line 3.0.15 leaving the wounded man where

Line 3.0.16 he feu. but with his wounds ban

Line 3.0.17 daged.

Line 3.0.18 The Germans, in che darkness

Line 3.0.19 of the second night, came out. 'I

Line 3.0.20 was almost dying of thirst and

Line 3.0.21 asked* for a drink of water, but

Line 3.0.22 they paid no attention and set' to

Line 3.0.23 work attaching three booby-traps

Line 3.0.24 to my body,' said the soldier. 'I

Line 3.0.25 lay on the charges the next day

Line 3.0.26 and pa'rt of the next night. I

Line 3.0.27 knew that if I moved I would be

Line 3.0.28 blown to pieces.'

Line 3.0.29 At 2 a.m. the Americans came

Line 3.0.30 out, cut the wired booby-traps,

Line 3.0.31 and took him back to his own