He helped a cursing comrade to bind up a wound of the shin.
But, of a sudden, cries of amazement broke out along the ranks of the new regiment.

"Here they come ag'in! Here they come ag'in!" The man who had sprawled upon the ground started up and said, "Gosh!" The youth turned quick eyes upon the field.

He discerned forms begin to swell in masses out of a distant wood.

He again saw the tilted flag speeding forward.
The shells, which had ceased to trouble the regiment for a time, came swirling again, and exploded in the grass or among the leaves of the trees.

They looked to be strange war flowers bursting into fierce bloom.
The men groaned.