seemingly aimless studies at the training camp were put to active
use.

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At the foot of the long Flanders hill-slope the "Here-We-Come"
Regiment, of mixed American and French infantry, held a
caterpillar-shaped line of trenches.

To the right, a few hundred yards away, was posted a Lancashire
regiment, supported by a battalion from Cornwall. On the left
were two French regiments. In front, facing the hill-slope and
not a half-mile distant, was the geometric arrangement of
sandbags that marked the contour of the German first-line
trenches.

The hill behind them, the boches in front of them, French and
British troops on either side of them--the Here-We-Comes were
helping to defend what was known as a "quiet' sector. Behind the
hill, and on loftier heights far to the rear, the Allied
artillery was posted. Somewhere in the same general locality lay
a division of British reserves.

It is almost a waste of words to have described thus the
surroundings of the Here-We-Comes. For, with no warning at all,
those entire surroundings were about to be changed.

Ludendorff and his little playmates were just then engaged in the
congenial sport of delivering unexpected blows at various
successive points of the Allied line, in an effort to find some