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 you call yourselves men?” We were lying in those salty swamps; the living flesh was peeling off us. But I’ve said that before; besides, everybody knows about it. He got a bullet in his chest. Down he went, covered with blood, and said: “Mother, look! snowdrops.” I don’t know where he got that from. He said “snow-drops,” and there was only marsh and blood. He was done for on the spot.



Hm!



He was the one who was always a stickler for order in the street. He was a decent policeman. If he was to rise from the dead and see this city now, that’d make him stare.



Bah! this place is an awful sight!



Things were bad here too. We had a very rough time of it. The enemy flung sulphur and fire on the city. We’re living in the ruins. O God! there was hunger and there was misery. It’s a tale that can’t be told.



I am here



Hah!



What’s that? You? You’re alive, are you? Why,