If a hundred a day burst for five weeks, people would begin to talk of the paralysis of commerce.

Yet who knows?
The loss of life would probably be small.

The citizen might grow as indifferent to shells as he is to shooting stars.
Here, for instance, the killed do not yet amount to thirty, the wounded may roughly be put down at 170, of whom, perhaps, twenty have died, and all except the confirmed cave-dwellers are beginning to go about as usual, or run for cover only when it shells particularly hard.
To-day has not been hard in any sense.

It opened with a heavy Scotch mist, which continued off and on, though for the most part the outlines of the mountains were visible.

"Long Tom" of Gun Hill did not speak.