't
hit. He seized his brother's body and the other man's and built them up
into the parapet with sandbags, and went on shooting.

When the stress was over and he could leave off, he looked round and saw
what he was leaning against. "Who did that?" he said. And they told him.

They get awfully sick at the big-print headlines in some of the
papers--"The Hill 60 Thrill"!

"Thrill, indeed! There's nothing thrilling about ploughing over parapets
into a machine-gun, with high explosives bursting round you,--it's
merely beastly," said a boy this evening, who is all over shrapnel
splinters.

_Saturday, May 8th,_ 9 A.M.--This is Der Tag. Could anybody go to bed
and undress?

I have been cutting dressings all night. One of the most stabbing things
in this war is seeing the lines of empty motor ambulances going up to
bring down the wrecks who at this moment are sound and fit, and all
absolutely ready to be turned into wrecks.

10.30 P.M.--Der Tag was a wash-out, but it is to begin at 1.15 to-night.
(It didn't!)

The tension is more up than ever. A boy who has just come in with a
poisoned heel (broken-hearted because he is out of it, while his
battalion moves up) says, "You'll be having them in in cartloads over
this."

_Sunday, May 9th_, 1.30 A.M.--The Lions are roaring in full blast and
lighting up the sky.

Have been busy to-night with an operation case who is needing a lot of
special nursing, and some admissions--one in at 11 P.M., who was only
wounded at 9 o'clock. I hope these magnificent roars and rumblings are
making a mess of the barbed wire and German trenches. There seems to be
a pretty general opinion that they will retaliate by dropping them into
this place if they have time, and pulverising it like Ypres.

5.25 A.M.--It has begun. It is awful--continuous and earthquaking.

9.30 A.M.--In bed. The last ten minutes of "Rapid" did its damnedest and
then began again, and we are still thundering hell into the German
lines.

It began before 5 with a fearful pounding from the French on our right,
and hasn't left off since.

Had a busy night with my operation case and the others (he is doing
fine), and in every spare second getting ready for the rush. The M.O.'s
were astir very early; the A.D.M.S. came to count empty beds. It is
to-night they'll be coming in.

Must try and sleep. But who could yesterday and to-day?

_Monday, May 10th_, 9.30 A.M.--We have had a night of it. Every Field
Ambulance, barg