But we've got to push and push hard." The colonel raised his glasses and took a long look in front.

Dick also had a pair and he, too, examined the country before them.

It was a fine, rolling region and all the forest was gone, except clumps of trees here and there.

The whole country would have been heavy with forest had it not been for the tramp of war.
It was now nearly noon and the sunlight was brilliant and intense.

The glasses carried far.