The battery commanders sometimes selected firing positions which appeared quite inaccessible to any one save a mountain climber, but the guns got there and earned much credit for their teams.

The cable extending from Malta to Alexandria is fifteen hundred and thirty-five miles long, and the whole of this line can be worked through without relay or repetition in a satisfactory manner, as regards both its scientific and commercial results, and with remarkably low battery-power.

Pleasant it was, also, to hear two or three droll tales about his battery boys; the personal traits, propensities, and soldierly value of many named by name, and the composite character and temper that distinguished the battery as a command; this specific quality of each particular organic unit, fighting body, among their troops being as needful for commanders to know as what to count on in the individual man.

Battery positions were chosen, but we never went.

The battery horses were near at hand, but while this one gun was escaping at the gallop the Westminsters' fire brought down one horse and two drivers, and I saw their bodies on the road as evidence of how the Westminsters had developed the art of shooting at a rapidly moving target.

Edna Ashley Bayne (W); 6Dec62; R306118. Metropolitan achievement tests; advanced battery form D, N.Y.C. edition for grades 7 & 8.

fondly put in a young battery sister.

He believed that the battery current could be made, through an electro-magnet, to produce physical results at a distance.

Of course there was nothing to be done except halt the column until the coolies could be collared and brought back, so Stewart, who had a battery pony with him, was sent off down the road after the absconding coolies.

On a front of 4500 yards we had in action seventy-six 18-pounders, twenty 4.5-inch howitzers, and four 3.7-inch howitzers, while eight 60-pounders, eight 6-inch howitzers, and four 4.5-inch howitzers were employed in counter battery work.

Put a stick of dynamite under some sugar, attached a battery wire to it, an' when she was licking up the sugar touched it off.

I swept out the place, cleaned about there, did errands, mixed battery solutions, and got a great deal of experience there in one way or another.

As there was no vacancy and he needed the rest of his borrowed dollar for meals, Edison found lodging in the battery room of the Gold Indicator Company.

The battery man's secrets

"Too late!" moaned Flora to the detective, Madame to Constance and Miranda, and the battery lads to their girls, from whose hands they began to wring wild good-byes as a peal of fifes and drums heralded the oncome of the departing regiment.

"I kept the battery box connections and clockwork inside the small camera I carried.

But my mind was so full of that assault and battery case, and the trickery of that fellow Mershone, that I wasn't looking for anything else.

Take guns and firing battery wagons only; leave the others here.

and I'm on guardthat is, battery guard, and I have to be up from midnight to reveille, not on a post, but in my tent, so that if any of my men (I'm a corporal now), whom I relieve every two hours, get into trouble they can call me.

The Engraving beneath represents a field-battery gun taking up its position in a canter.

" "You have an ingenious turn with you, good-man," returned the wondering countryman; "now a ship might have lain on the battery island itself, and I would have hardly noticed the thing.

" Donovan, standing strictly to attention, and with his eyes fixed straight to his front, drew a deep breath and rattled off: "At the order or signal from the battery leader or section commander, 'Halt action front!'

His story, he insisted, was too long to tell before he had delivered certain battery letters; one to Victorine, two to Constance Mandeville, and so on.

While busy with her ablutions the two new nurses arrived, seated on a battery limber; and, hastily drying her hands, she went to them and welcomed them, gave them tea and breakfast in Dr. West's office, and left them there while she went away to awake Celia and Letty, pack her valise for the voyage before her, and write to Berkley.

Along the battery-line her cry Had fallen among the men, And they started back;they were there to die; But was life so near them, then? They listened for life; the rattling fire Far off, and the far-off roar, Were all; and the colonel shook his head, And they turned to their guns once more.