Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 95
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[Page 95]
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idleness.
Now it is late in the evening. An order is given for the troops to embark. There is at once movement and bustle everywhere.
Everybody is busy enough in getting everything aboard but there is none of the fuss or excitement that made the embarkation of troops hysterical events in the fierce heart throbbing days of the commencement of the war.
The grey ship, still swallowing at countless slings of baggage and provisions that continue to sway and dangle about its bulwarks like so many spiders dropped from a tangled web above, is also gobbling two serpent-like monsters of animated Khaki that officers have induced to crawl up its steep gangways. It continues to do this with the inappeasable hunger of a stunned leviathan until all