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to a perfectly lovely dwelling house. The detonation from such an instrument is worse than that of a 155 piece and is at once awful, and ^[[the]] instigator of much cold fear and ^[[either holy or]] profane thoughts. After a session of bombing one feels like doing almost anything to the Hun. But ^[[as with]] [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] gas and liquid fire, that [[strikethrough]]?[[/strikethrough]] ^[[same Hun is]] finding out that two can play that kind of sad game.

Only it is great satisfaction for us to know that the Bosche is always the inventor of these forms of frightfulness. What is there in the German make-up that leads them to drop explosives on hospitals, for instance? Why, it is unbelievable; if the allies were to do [[underline]] that [[/underline]] I believe there'd suddenly be such public thumbs-dowiness that the war would quit. With the Germans though it keeps right on. What'smatter with 'em anyway?