the fighting was in the next mountains beyond and was not a mile away.All right.

 dry and white in the sun
 dry and white in the sun. hauling them back from the mountains to the clearing station and then distributing them to the hospitals named on their papers. one for troops and one for officers. Stop it. As soon as I get the papers on these wounded Ill take you along the road and drop you with your medical officers. After I was wounded I never found him. I had not said it before. and healthy.I have to go. Really. Im all right. The war was changed too.I have brought him in. He doesnt want to see peasants. You see Im not mad and Im not gone off.

 Another burst and in the noise you could hear the smaller noise of the brick and dirt raining down. They were silent until I went out. how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things. its smooth surface covered with brick dust.A sergeant shot two officers who would not get out. He spoke again in pidgin Italian. Ill see the medical wallahs. Im Scotch.Youre not a Catholic. Thank you very much. he said. baby.Priest every night five against one. he said when he saw me.Hows everythingNot so bad.

Dont I talk Italian good enoughI knew you was an American all right. Tenente Can I help in any way He was the quietest one of the four. We walked to the door and I saw her go in and down the hall. But the little Scotch one is very nice. They blew him all to bits.Oh.Priest today with girls. she said. That night in the mess after the spaghetti course. Always in Rome. I said. Maybe you will get an English medal too. although I learned it later.Rinaldi went out with me. depended to a considerable extent on myself.

 I felt him in his metal box against my chest while we drove.I dont know. Nobody was in sight. Also we were required to wear an automatic pistol; even doctors and sanitary officers. capitano (next finger). He could have had anything he wanted if I would have known. I say he bellows!I would like you to go to Abruzzi. Thats the end of it.Poor man.There was great laughter from everybody. He was walking with a limp. the smooth functioning of the business of removing wounded and sick from the dressing stations. I said. It is the captain. Some wore their steel helmets but most of them carried them slung from their packs.

 I love you. Kiss me goodby. drink that.Passini shook his head. Some one came in and as the door opened I could see the snow falling. Middle name First name Rank Where born What class What corps and so on. I could pull backward along with my arms and elbows.Im awfully tired.How you like this goddam warRotten. I said.It is very valuable. Well all eat.All right.Dont write anything that will bother the censor. Signor Tenente.

 My friend motioned for him to come in.Slit the tunic.You are crazy. You wont worry now. They arent girls; they are old war comrades.I ate the end of my piece of cheese and took a swallow of wine. Goodnight.Goodnight. There isnt always an explanation for everything.Yes. cartridges. But the Italians had crossed and spread out a little way on the far side to hold about a mile and a half on the Austrian side of the river. Why did you join up with the ItaliansI was in Italy. Fillipo Vincenza.Here is the American Tenente.

 They arent girls; they are old war comrades. I love you so.They tell me youve lost two drivers.What is there to eatWe have a little pasta asciutta.Goodevening. It takes a long time to be. I wish she were here now. the lieutenant said. He had to sign the proposition for the citation. It was a nuisance to have them there but it was a comfort that they were no bigger. A. Maria. the others dusty. Her hand had hit my nose and eyes.Shes on duty.

 We saw their white uniforms through the trees and walked toward them. she said.Im so sorry. Im not. Gordini said.What forBecause you are gravely wounded. Catherine.I dont think it will hurt you. looking out of the window of the bawdy house.Im afraid it will make it bigger.The drops fell very slowly.Oh. Oh mama mia.The Germans too. He talks French.

 drink that. He sat down beside me. she said. unbuttoned the shirt collar and dropped him in under the shirt. I gave them each a package of cigarettes. I opened the capsule and spilled him out into my hand.They have big Skoda guns.Be serious. I said. It is protected by the little hill. said Miss Ferguson.Is there anything I can do. Catherine. the steel helmet on the same peg. with the sun on it.

 sucking in the ends. Ill take it very easily. there were some new hospitals. All fire and smoke and nothing inside.That doesnt matter. But I did not know that then. mama Mia I pulled and twisted and got my legs loose finally and turned around and touched him.Listen. She wore what seemed to me to be a nurses uniform.I thought you said he was a Frenchman. the water blue like the sky. It is a noble organization.Lift it high. good luck and Vive la France.It would be fine if you would take the cars.

 Multiple superficial wounds of the left and right thigh and left and right knee and right foot. I started when he did. I was there and reading of it in the paper.Youre an orator. I started when he did. To your valorous wounds. I said. I said. sitting in my trousers and an undershirt in front of the open window. Stupid. went downstairs. You know more about it than I do. The others were shouting.Nothing. TenenteYoure damned right.

When you come back bring a phonograph. There were not enough stretchers.The major spoke to an orderly who went out of sight in the back and came back with a metal basin of cold cooked macaroni. I looked at her. I think the heat knocked me over yesterday.The forest of oak trees on the mountain beyond the town was gone. There were mists over the river and clouds on the mountain and the trucks splashed mud on the road and the troops were muddy and wet in their capes their rifles were wet and under their capes the two leather cartridge-boxes on the front of the belts. But youre very nice. When I got home it was too late and I did not see Miss Barkley until the next evening. he said. I hope you feel better. Drink that.He poured two glasses and we touched them. Im something called a V. He woke when he heard me in the room and sat up.

 The Englishman broke into voluble and perfect Italian. I thought somebody was screaming.Hows everythingNot so bad. Manera lit his lighter and passed it around. holding below the target and trying to master the jerk of the ridiculous short barrel until I could hit within a yard of where I aimed at twenty paces and then the ridiculousness of carrying a pistol at all came over me and I soon forgot it and carried it flopping against the small of my back with no feeling at all except a vague sort of shame when I met Englishspeaking people. While I rubbed myself with a towel I looked around the room and out the window and at Rinaldi lying with his eyes closed on the bed. Ill wrap you up and dont bounce your head around. I said.Come. I had been up the river to the bridgehead at Plava. the captain said.Rinaldi looked at me blankly.No understand. The captain was having a great success with finger games. the instruments shining in the light.

 There were four drivers. He can be here until you are ready to take him.Shall we sit here or go out in the gardenLets go out.Im English. They could drive all right.Yes.Most of them dont.He stood up and put on his gloves. Your blood coagulates beautifully. Mr. He shook his head at me. It was impossible to salute foreigners as an Italian. pneumonia and hard and soft chancres.I lifted it to arms length and the strands cleared. Thank you very much.

I went along the narrow road down toward the river. I say its rotten. locked in the trunk. Oh Jesus lovely Mary stop it. This machine is no good but the others march. I said. Dont you read it. which was protected by a shoulder of the mountain. I had met two gunners from that lot. Miss Barkley said. Sometimes still pleasant and fond and warm and breakfast and lunch. You see the point.Abbastanza bene. Would you like a drink of brandy How did you run into this thing anyway What were you trying to do Commit suicide Antitetanus please. They were afraid.

Nonsense. It came very fast and the sun went a dull yellow and then everything was gray and the sky was covered and the cloud came on down the mountain and suddenly we were in it and it was snow. passing on the road. said Manera. and the whole thing going well on the Carso made the fall very different from the last fall when we had been in the country. A mass loosened. baby. gray leather boxes heavy with the packs of clips of thin. He spread the hand again. Yes. said Passini. We both went flat and with the flash and bump of the burst and the smell heard the singing off of the fragments and the rattle of falling brick. They were laughing. keeping to the side. after all.

Four hundred twenty or minnenwerfer. after all. I am an atheist. Hes coming to see you. lieutenant. It was impossible to salute foreigners as an Italian. I just tell you.What is the differenceA nurse is like a doctor. He sat down beside me. Passini said. and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night. This had been the villa of a very wealthy German and the busts must have cost him plenty. It was an Astra 7. Now the fighting was in the next mountains beyond and was not a mile away.All right.