"The truth about the present fightingwell, it cannot be rendered in words significant enough to shock into understanding the people who are looking in the newspapers now for stories of heroism, 'brilliant bayonet charges,' and the rest of the inducements which sell stories of warfare, but tell us nothing about it.

Like a wild man you would have rushed to fight, to stab and beat, to murderand you would have left your breast open for a bayonet-thrust....

" That is why the Russian flag was hoisted over the government buildings at Tabriz, the capital of the richest province of the empire, while a Russian military governor dispensed justice at the bayonet-point and with the noose.

" "But the bayonet wounds and the saber wounds?"

"I think a good title would be, Have I Put Everything in?" "Sounds like a manual of bayonet exercise," said the soldier, and he made imaginary lunges at imaginary Huns.

But the defenders did not give up without a struggle, and there was fierce bayonet fighting.

Exercises for instruction in bayonet combat are prescribed in the Manual for Bayonet Exercise.

Reinforced, they attacked with magnificent courage in face of heavy machine-gun fire, but it was not until after a rather prolonged period of bayonet work that the Lowland troops got the upper hand, the Turks trying again and again to force them out.

The reason is that in our first bayonet practice, when we rushed and thrust a stuffed bag, he made us yell, "God damn you, Germandie!"

FOR EACH ENLISTED MAN ARMED WITH THE RIFLE. 1 United States magazine rifle, caliber .30. 1 bayonet. 1 bayonet scabbard. 1 gun sling. 1 rifle cartridge belt.

"From village to village," says Colonel Buchan, "amid the smoke of burning haystacks and farmsteads, the French bayonet attack was pressed home.

Dorn might have resembled a curious, adventure-loving boy, to judge from his handling of rifles and the way he slipped a strong hand along the gleaming bayonet-blades.

In bayonet fencing and in actual combat the foot first moved in stepping to the right or left is the one which at the moment bears the least weight.

His audience howled with mirth at this dumb show of the bayonet-fight and of killing four men.

"Ancient family pictures which could not be taken out of their frames have been ruined by bayonet stabs, and from the shape of the cuts they were certainly the work of French bayonets.

There's enough to eat us if they get to bayonet distance!

Troops which are successful in their first few bayonet encounters will seldom thereafter be called upon to use the bayonettheir opponents will not await the assault.

The bayonet companies of the loyalist militia were in the same plight; and the North Carolina tories, the least disciplined, could no longer be held to their work.

The brigade made the attack just after completing a fourteen miles' march in heavy going, achieving the remarkable record of having had three bayonet battles on three nights out of four.

Instinctively, for there was no time to reason, I cocked, presented in a sort of charge-bayonet attitude, the only one possible, and pulled trigger.

On the lazy afternoon breeze come the concerted yells of a bayonet class, practising frightfulness further down the valley; also the staccato chatter of Lewis guns punching holes in the near hill-side.

amidst the willow boughs The serried bayonets gleam; They've flung their bridgethey've won the isle; The foe have crossed the stream!

So we stand in the sun, but afraid of a probable shower; So we stand and stare, and see, to the left of St. Peter's, Smoke, from the cannon, white,but that is at intervals only, Black, from a burning house, we suppose, by the Cavalleggieri; And we believe we discern some lines of men descending Down through the vineyard-slopes, and catch a bayonet gleaming.

In a thick row of corn at the bottom of the hill I saw a bayonet glitter.

Excepting the flats and a narrow strip of land on each side, the country was very indifferent, the hills being composed of sandstone and sand, covered with coarse scrub and a gigantic species of grass, the leaves of which, instead of affording food for stock, were a source of great annoyance to our horses, being armed with sharp thorny points, and was somewhat appropriately called bayonet grass by the party.