In the lull which fell on the fighting at the time of the first Christmas of the War, a British officer was disquieted to notice that his men were fraternizing with the Germans, who were standing about with them in No-man's land, laughing and talking.

My second story, the story of the British lieutenant in No-man's land, is briefer.

He then told how he and a companion crept out into No-man's land to bring in some of our wounded who were lying there.

They found him lying out in a kind of no-man's land, drenched to the skin, so they determine to keep him as a souvenir, and to take him home with them.

'What then?' "'I go listening again in no-man's land,' said I, and he whistled softly. 'Is there not a roof below your window?'

The worst of his task had been to find the place; this no-man's place, but his.

He goes hand and heart along with Government in all their notions of legitimacy and political aggrandizement, in the hope that they will leave him a sort of no-man's ground of humanity in the Great Desert, where his reputation for benevolence and public spirit may spring up and flourish, till its head touches the clouds, and it stretches out its branches to the farthest part of the earth.

In her last extant letter, addressed to the leader of the corps de ballet at the Ring Theatre in Vienna, Madame Milli Orth herself hinted at a No-Man's Land, which they were seeking as the home of their future happiness.

This was the signal for more Boche anatomy to be disclosed, and this was replied to by all our Alf's and Bill's, until, in less time than it takes to tell, half a dozen or so of each of the belligerents were outside their trenches and were advancing towards each other in no-man's land.

would you sell your soul in this manner to Beelzebub; and that, too, without a price?" "I say, friend, it may be as well to overhaul your ideas, before you let them slip, in this no-man's fashion, from your tongue.

Our lake lay at the head of such a lagoon, a devious outlet of the basin of which the lake occupied the principal expanse, reached through three miles of no-man's route, framed in green hills forest-clad up to their summits.

Through goblin-haunted wildernesses he must go, through unmapped no-man's lands, and vacuum solitudes of the world's end, and peril and pestilence meet in every form, the face of his foe the friendliest thing in all his mysterious travel.

Based on the author's Germany: nation or no-man's land.

Based on the author's Germany: nation or no-man's land.

The no-man's land between what-was and what-was-not Rome not only existed in a state of perpetual uncertainty, but provided a battle field for the smuggling, brigandage, the periodic border clashes, the migrations, incursions, invasions and punitive expeditions that are the characteristic features of every ill-defined political boundary.

Its very roughness of outline, and its sterile soil, explained the barrenness and desolationa no-man's land, impossible of cultivation, it remained neglected and unused.

The third, a widow, with new grief made wild, Shut in the icy palm of her dead child. IDENTITY Somewherein desolate wind-swept space In Twilight-landin No-man's land Two hurrying Shapes met face to face, And bade each other stand.

The battle raged, the Bavarians charged the French lines, and the spot-light of the story was played upon a soldier from Oberammergau who lay wounded in "No-Man's Land."