The parapet wall was very low, and caught the turnkey behind the knee as he staggered, tripping him over into the well-mouth.

At intervals along the parapet men watched through periscopes hoisted over the top edge, and every now and then one fired through a loophole.

The problem of parapet mending has been reduced to arithmetical form à la Colenso, as follows: "If two inches of rain per diem brings down one quarter of a company's parapet, and one company, working about twenty-six hours per diem, can revet one-eighth of a company's parapet, how long will your trenches lastgiven the additional premisses that no revetments to speak of are to be had, and that two inches of rain is only a minimum ration?"

The bridge was an eighteenth-century bridge, with a foaming weir on the left, and on the right there was a sentimental walk under linden-trees, and there were usually some boys seated on the parapet fishing.

A fortnight ago, ready for the first time to undertake the offensive on a grand and prolonged scale,Loos was a mere reconnaissance compared with this,the New British Army went over the parapet shoulder to shoulder with the most heroic Army in the worldthe Army of Franceand attacked over a sixteen-mile front in the Valley of the Somme.

What now?" "To the arch of the parapet yonder.

At the side of the wheel was the well-mouth, a dark, round opening with a low parapet round it, rising two feet from the floor.