Bullets & Billets

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

CHAPTER XXVII

CHAPTER XXVIII

CHAPTER XXIX

CHAPTER XXX

CHAPTER XXXI

Bullets & Billets The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bullets & Billets, by Bruce Bairnsfather This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Bullets & Billets Author: Bruce Bairnsfather Release Date: February 23, 2004 [EBook #11232] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 CHAPTER I 3 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BULLETS & BILLETS *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Steven desJardins, and Distributed Proofreaders Bullets & Billets By Bruce Bairnsfather 1916 TO MY OLD PALS, "BILL," "BERT," AND "ALF," WHO HAVE SAT IN THE MUD WITH ME CONTENTS CHAPTER I Landing at Havre--Tortoni`s--Follow the tram lines--Orders for the Front. CHAPTER II Tortuous travelling--Clippers and tablets--Dumped at a siding--I join my Battalion. CHAPTER III Those Plugstreet trenches--Mud and rain--Flooded out--A hopeless dawn. CHAPTER IV More mud--Rain and bullets--A bit of cake--"Wind up"--Night rounds. CHAPTER V My man Friday--"Chuck us the biscuits"--Relieved--Billets. CHAPTER VI The Transport Farm--Fleeced by the Flemish--Riding--Nearing Christmas. CHAPTER VII A projected attack---Digging a sap--An `ell of a night--The attack--Puncturing Prussians. CHAPTER VIII Christmas Eve--A lull in hate--Briton cum Boche. CHAPTER IX Souvenirs--A ride to Nieppe--Tea at H.Q.--Trenches once more. CHAPTER X 4 CHAPTER X My partial escape from the mud--The deserted village--My "cottage." CHAPTER XI Stocktaking--Fortifying--Nebulous Fragments. CHAPTER XII A brain wave--Making a "funk hole"--Plugstreet Wood--Sniping. CHAPTER XIII Robinson Crusoe--That turbulent table. CHAPTER XIV The Amphibians--Fed-up, but determined--The gun parapet. CHAPTER XV Arrival of the "Johnsons"--"Where did that one go?"--The First Fragment dispatched--The exodus--Where? CHAPTER XVI New trenches--The night inspection--Letter from the Bystander. CHAPTER XVII Wulverghem--The Douve--Corduroy boards--Back at our farm. CHAPTER XVIII The painter and decorator--Fragments forming--Night on the mud prairie. CHAPTER XIX Visions of leave--Dick Turpin--Leave! CHAPTER XX That Leave train--My old pal--London and home--The call of the wild. CHAPTER XXI Back from leave--That "blinkin` moon"--Johnson `oles--Tommy and "frightfulness"--Exploring expedition. CHAPTER XXII 5 CHAPTER XXII A daylight stalk--The disused trench--"Did they see me?"--A good sniping position. CHAPTER XXIII Our moated farm--Wulverghem--The Curé`s house--A shattered Church--More "heavies"--A farm on fire. CHAPTER XXIV That ration fatigue--Sketches in request--Bailleul--Baths and lunatics--How to conduct a war. CHAPTER XXV Getting stale--Longing for change--We leave the Douve--On the march--Spotted fever--Ten days` rest. CHAPTER XXVI A pleasant change--Suzette, Berthe and Marthe--"La jeune fille farouche"--André. CHAPTER XXVII Getting fit--Caricaturing the Curé--"Dirty work ahead"--A projected attack--Unlooked-for orders. CHAPTER XXVIII We march for Ypres--Halt at Locre--A bleak camp and meagre fare--Signs of battle--First view of Ypres. CHAPTER XXIX Getting nearer--A lugubrious party--Still nearer--Blazing Ypres--Orders for attack. CHAPTER XXX Rain and mud--A trying march--In the thick of it--A wounded officer--Heavy shelling--I get my "quietus!" CHAPTER XXXI Slowly recovering--Field hospital--Ambulance train--Back in England. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Bruce Bairnsfather: a photograph The Birth of "Fragments": Scribbles on the farmhouse walls That Astronomical Annoyance, the Star Shell "Plugstreet Wood" ... - tailieumienphi.vn