He motioned me to a seat in the bare little room, alive with tickings and clickings.

For a week, perhaps, you go hurtling through a closely articulated programme almost as personally helpless as a package in a pneumatic tubenight expresses, racing military motors, snap-shots at this and that, down a bewildering vista of long gray capes, heel clickings, stiff bows from the waist, and military salutes.

Our progress everywhere was down a continuous aisle of heel-clickings and salutes.

Cheered and stiffened by many bows and heel clickings and warming hospitality, we hurried off to an artillery position near the village of Olszanica.

The infantry say that a scouting patrol fumbling about in the darkness in front of the forward fire trench heard suspicious soundslittle clickings of equipment and accouterments, stealthy rustlings, distant trampingand reported on their return to the trench.