It was heavy work, too, for infantry who not only had to carry the weight of mud-caked boots, but were handicapped by continual slipping upon the rocky ground.

It occurred to me that the real meaning of this numbness might be a gradual slipping away from the pleasure-pain guidance of the animal man.

Then a half laugh from him fell on the brilliant, shining, hard silence with something of the sound of a pebble slipping over glare ice.