FEAR AFTER THE FIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 181, 31 July 1915, Page 15

FEAR AFTER THE FIGHT.

A LRKSON IN THE WAYS OF WAR. The yminn officer—our now flebtlng man who a year ago bn no more of the ways of war lunu tli.- Man In the Moon -lias taken In i! as though he were liorn to It. and r.f , Hi- deeds (lie ra'c may well be proud. He j ilrlils gamely, he <Hcs jrainrly. liW men love ami honour Uliu. mill lie loves a'ld honours Ms men l'rldo of birth, broad nrrr<. and groat riches hamper him not: lir lias sunk pviTytblliß In that sublime fraternity of rurrjrlns on. hand In hand, and nnn In arm. with Hint splendid, rollckI tic soul lalwlled lovingly l>y us an "Tommy." and he has no fear <if whatever may befall. No feari Well. Hint perhaps Is not t'.ic way to put It <writes .. speelal correKpondcnt of the -Daily News' , "In northern I "ranee'l, f»r fo:ir falls upon the liravist a! the most unexpected moments, autl then when the time ionics to be really and horribly afralil. the demon most unaceouutalily vanlfhes. and a clorious nißh of high spirits swoops In. upon the wings of which iueredilile deeds are wrought. 1 -'A fellow Is much more afraid of looking nfrald than of bring afraid," snlil a frank younx oflleer of the London Scottish to mc r.s v. o were talking this evenli'i;. "The I'lily thing I have over .stiot In my life was an old retriever with nn :l»c|pnt blundcrbus. At Messlnrs the first German who came at mc appeared to be about nine feet high, and I wasn't In the least Lit afraid. I got him in the ehesl. and he went down with a rraMi. Tbe other men around him seemed to melt away, and 1 wan left entirely alone on the edge of a muddy turnip field. For a moment I felt as I should Imagine David felt when he slew Goliath, but the instant after, though there was no need for it. I became fnll of fear, threw my kit away, and ran unpursned Into the night. "Since thee," he added with a quiet smile, "I have shot nine Germans to my own certain knowledge, and after each man went down the same feeling of fear swept over mc. and I always wanted to njn away."