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“Over the Top”
By An American Soldier
Who Went
ARTHUR GUY EMPEY
Machine Gunner Serolng In France
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(Copyright, 1917, by Arthur Gny Bmpay)
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I—Fired by the news of the
sinking of the Lusitania by a German
submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Ameri
can, leaves his office In Jersey City and
goes to England where he enlists In the
British army.
CHAPTER IT-After a period of train
ing, Empey volunteers for Immediate serv
ice and soon finds himself In rest billets
‘‘somewhere In France,” where he first
makes the acquaintance of the ever-pres
ent “cooties.”
CHAPTER III—Empey attends his first
church services at the front while a Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV—Empey’s command goes
Into the front-line trenches and Is under
fire for the first time.
CHAPTER V—Empey learns to adopt
the motto of the Brtlsh Tommy, "If you
are going to get It, you’ll get it, so never
worry."
CHAPTER VI—Back In rest billets. Em
pey gets his first experience as a mess
orderly.
CHAPTER VII—Empey learns how the
British soldiers are fed.
CHAPTER VIII—Back In the front-line
trench, Empey sees his first friend of the
trenches “go West.”
CHAPTER IX—Empey makes his first
visit to a dugout In ■‘Suicide Ditch.”
CHAPTER X—Empey learns what con
stitutes a "day’s work” In the front-line
trench.
CHAPTER XI—Empey goes “over the
top” for the first time In a charge on the
German trenches and Is wounded by a
bayonet thrust. ,
CHAPTER XIII—Each Tommy gets
an official bath.
CHAPTER XIV—Empey helps dig
an advanced trench under German
fire.
CHAPTER XV'—On “listening post”
in No Man’s Land.
CHAPTER XVI—Two artillerymen
"put one over” on Old Pepper, their
regimental commander.
CHAPTER XVII—Empey has nar
row escape while on patrol duty in No
Man's Land.
CHAPTER XVIII—Back in rest bil
lets Empey writes and stages a farce
comedy.
on the left, and then the boxholders
turned loose; but outside of this little
fiasco tlie performance was a huge suc
cess, and we decided to run it for a
week.
New troops were constantly coming
through, and for six performances we
had the “S. R. O.” sign suspended out
side.
CHAPTER XIX.
On His Own.
Of course Tommy cannot always be
producing plays under fire but while
In rest billets he has numerous other
ways of amusing himself. He is a j
great gambler, but never plays for I
large stakes. Generally, in each com- j
pany, you will find a regular Canfield. !
This man banks nearly all tlie games j
of chance and is an undisputed author
ity on the rules of gambling. When
ever there is an argument among the
Tommies about some uncertain point
as to whether Houghton is entitled to
Watkins’ sixpence, the matter is taken
to the recognized authority and his de- j
cision Is final.
The two most popular games are 1
“Crown and Anchor” and “House.” 1
The paraphernalia used in “Crown [
and Anchor” consists of a piece of can- j
vas two feet by three feet. Tills is I
divided into six equal squares. In these
squares are painted a club, diamond,
heart, spade, crown, and an anchor,
one device to a square. There are
three dice used, each dice marked the
same as- the canvas. The banker sets
up his gambling outfit in the corner ot
a billet and starts bally-hooing until a
crowd of Tommies gathers around;
then the game starts.
The Tommies place bets on the
squares, the crown or anchor being
played the most. The banker then
rolls his three dice and collects or pays
out as the case may be. If you play
thet.cEoivn and otxs shows, an ea the
dfcC, you get even money, if two show
up, you receive two to one, and if three,
three to one. If the crown does not ap
pear and you have bet on it, you lose,
and so on. The percentage for the
banker is large If every square is
played, but If the crowd is partial to,
say two squares, he has to trust to
luck. The banker generally wins.
The game of “House” is very popular
also. It takes two men to run it. This
game consists of numerous squares of
cardboard containing three rows of
numbers, five numbers to a row. The
numbers run from one to ninety. Each
card has a different combination.
The French “estaminets" In the vil
lages are open from eleven in the morn
ing until one in the afternoon in ac
cordance with army orders.
After dinner the Tommies congre
gate at these places to drink French
beer at a penny a glass and play
“House.”
Ag soon as the estaminet Is suffi
ciently crowded the proprietors of the
"House” game get busy and, as they
term It, "form a school.” This consists j
of going around and selling cards at !
a franc each. If they have ten in the
school, the backers of the game de
duct two francs for their trouble and
the winner gets eight fruucs.
Then the game starts. Each buyer
places his card before him on the ta
ble, first breaking up matches into fif
teen pieces.
One of the backers of the game has
a small cloth bag in w'hlch are ninety
onrdboftrd Krvinrua nuph ° •*"—
her printed U&rfeon,Tronf one to’nine
ty. He raps on the table and cries
out: “Eyes down, niy lucky lnds.”
All noise ceases and every one is at- 1
tentlon.
The croupier places his hand in the |
bag and draws forth a numbered
square and immediately calls out the !
number. The man who owns the card
with that particular number on it,
covers the square with a match. The
one who covers the fifteen numbers on !
his card first shouts “House.” The
other backer Immediately comes over
to him and verifies the card by calling
out the numbers thereon to the man
with the bag. As each number is
called he picks it out of the ones
picked from the bag and says, “Right.”
If the count is right he shouts, “House
correct, pay the lucky gentleman, and
sell him a card for the next school.”
The “lucky gentleman” generally buys
one unless he has a miser trace in
his veins.
Then another collection is made, a
school formed, and they carry on with
the game.
The caller-out has muny nicknames
for the numbers such as “Kelly’s Eye"
for one, "Leg’s Eleven” for eleven,
“Cllckety-cllck” for sixty-six, or “Top
of the house” meaning ninety.
The game is honest and quite en
joyable. Sometimes you have fourteen
numbers on your card covered and
you are waiting for the fifteenth to be
called. In an imploring voice you call
out, “Come on, Watkins, chum, I'm
sweating on ‘Kelly’s Eye.’ ”
Watkins generally replies, “Well,
keep out of a draft, you’ll catch cold.”
Another game is "Pontoon,” played
with cards; it Is the same as our
“Black Jack,” or “Twenty-one.”
A card game called “Brag” is also
popular. Using a casino deck, the
dealer deals each player three cards.
It is similar to our poker, except for
the fact that you only use three cards
and cannot draw. The deck is never
shuffled until a man shows three of a
kind or a "prile” as It is called. The
value of the hands are, high card, a
pair, a run, a flush or three of a kind
or “prile." The limit is generally a
penny, so it is hard to win a fortune.
The next in popularity is a card
game called “Nap.” It is well named.
Every time I played it I went to sleep.
Whist and solo whist are played by
the highbrows of the company.
When the gamblers tire of all other
games they try “Banker and Broker.”
I spent n week trying to teach some
of the Tommies how to play poker, but
because I won thirty-five francs they
declared that they didn’t “fawncy” the
game.
Tommy plays few card games; the
general run never heard of poker, eu
chre, seven up, or pinochle. They have
a game similar to pinochle called
“Royal Bezique,” but few know how to
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Generally there are two decks of
c^rds in a section, and in a short time
they arc so dog-eured and greasy, you
can hardly tell the ace of spades from
the ace of hearts. The owners of these
decks sometimes condescend to lend
them after much coaxing.
So you see, Mr. Atkins has his fun
mixed in with his hardships and, con
trary to popular belief, the rank and
file of the British army in the trenches
is one big happy family. Now In Vir
ginia, at school, I was fed on old Me
Gully’s primary reader, which gave me
an opinion of an Englishman about
equal to a ’7(1 Minute Man’s backed up
by a Sinn Fciner’s. But I found Tom
my to be the best of mates and a gen
tleman through and through. He never
thinks of knocking his officers. If one
makes a costly mistake and Tommy
pays with his blood, there is no gen
eral condemnation of fbe officer. He
Is just pitied. It Is exactly the same
ns it was with the Light Brigade at
Balaclava, to say nothing of Gallipoli,
Neuve C'hapelle and Loos. Personally
I remember a little incident where
twenty of us were sent on a trench
raid, only two of us returning, but I
will tell this story later on.
I said it was a big happy family, and
so it is, but as in all happy families,
there are servants, so in the British
army there are also servants, officers’
servants, or “O. S.” as they are termed.
In the American army the common
name for them is “dog robbers.” From
a controversy in the English papers,
Winston Churchill made the state
ment, as far as I can remember, that
the officers’ servants in the British
forces totaled nearly two hundred
thousand. He claimed that this re
moved two hundred thousand excep
tionally good and well-trained fighters
from the actual firing line, claiming
that the officers, when selecting a man
for servant’s duty, generally picked the
man who hud been out the longest and
knew the ropes.
But from my observation I find that
a large percentage of the servants do
go over the top, but behind the lines
they very seldom engage in digging
parties, fatigues, parades or drills.
This work is as necessary as actually
engaging in an attack, therefore I think
it would be safe to say that the air
round work of the two hundred thou
sand is about equal to fifty thousand
men who are on straight military du
ties. In numerous instances, officers’
servants hold the rank of lance-corpo
rals and they assume the same duties
and authority of a butler, the one
stripe giving him precedence over the
other servants.
There are lots of amusing stories
told of “O. S.”
Oue day one of our majors went into
the servants’ billet and commence'1
“blinding” at them, saying that
horse had no straw uud that he p
sonally knew that straw hud heeu
sued for this purpose. He called
lance-corporul to account. The ■
poral answered, “Bllme me, sir,
straw .was issued, but tlua-u wo *
enough eft over from The servants' |
beds; In fact, we had to use some of !
the ’ay to 'elp out, sir.”
It is needless to suy that the serv
ants dispensed with their soft beds
that particular night.
Nevertheless it is not the fault of
the individual officer, it is just the sur
vival of a quaint old English custom.
You know an Englishman cannot be
changed in a day.
But the average English officer is a
good sport. He will sit on a fire step
and listen respectfully to Private
Jones’ theory of the way the war
should be conducted. . This war is
gradually crumbling the once Insur
mountable wull of caste.
You would be convinced of this if
you could see King George go among
his men on an Inspecting tour under
fire, or pause before a little wooden
cross in some shell-tossed field with
tears In his eyes as he reads the in
scription. And a little later perhaps
bend over a wounded man on a stretch
er, patting him on the head.
More than once in a hospital I have
seen a titled Bed Cross nurse fetching
and carrying for a wounded soldier,
perhaps the one who in civil life de
livered the coal at her back door. To
day she does not shrink from lighting
his fag or even washing his grimy
body.
Tommy admires Albert of Belgium be
cause he is not a pusher of men; he
leads them. With hi nr it’s not a case
of “take that trench,” it is “come on
and we will take it”
It is amusing to notice the different
characteristics of the Irish, Scotch and
English soldiers. The Irish and Scotch
are very Impetuous, especially when it
comes to bayonet fighting, while the
Englishman, though a trifle slower,
thoroughly does his bit; he is more
methodical and has the grip of a bull
dog on a captured position. He is
Slower to think ; that is the reason why
he never knows when he Is licked.
Twenty minutes before going over
the top the English Tommy will sit on
the fire step and thoroughly examine
the mechanism of his rifle to see that It
Is In working order and will Are prop
erly. After this examination he Is sat
isfied and ready to meet the Boches.
But the Irishman or Scotchman sits
on the fire step, his rifle with bayonet
fixed between his knees, the butt of
which perhaps is sinking into the mud
—the bolt couldn't be opened with a
team of horses it Is so rusty—but he
spits on his sleeve and slowly polishes
his bayonet; when this is done he also
is ready to argue with Fritz.
It is not necessary to mention the
colonials (the Canadians, Australians
and New Zealanders), the whole world
knows what they have done for Eng
land.
The Australian and New Zealander
is termed the “Anzac,” taking the
name from the first letters of their of
ficial designation, Australian and New
Zealand urmy corps.
Tommy divides the German army
into three classes according to their
fighting abilities. They rank as fol
lows: Prussians, Bavarians and Sax
ons.
When up against a Prussian regi
ment it is a case of keep your napper
below the purupet and duck. A bang
bang all the time arid a war Is on. The i
Bavarians are little better, but the,
Saxons ure fairly good sports and are j
willing occasionally to behave as gen- j
tleineu and take it easy, but you can- j
not trust any of them overlong.
At one point of the line the trenches i
were about thirty-two yards apart.
This sounds horrible, but in fact it was
easy, because neither side could shell
the enemy’s front-line trench for fear
shells would drop into their own. This 1
eliminated artillery fire.
In these trenches when up against
the Prussians and Bavarians, Tommy
had a hot time of it, but when the Sax- j
ons "took over” it was a picnic; they
would yell across that they were Sax-1
ons and would not fire. Both sides j
would sit on the parapet and carry on ]
a conversation. This generally consist- \
ed of Tommy telling them how much j
he loved the kaiser, while the Saxons
informed Tommy that King George!
was a particular friend of theirs and
hoped that he was doing nicely.
When the Saxons were to be relieved
by Prussians or Bavarians, they would
yell this information across No Man’s
Land and Tommy would immediately
tumble into his trench and keep his j
head down
(To be Continued)
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