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still

further

aided by

the

shell-plowed

condition

of the

hillside.

Again and

again he

had to

break his

stride, to

leap some

shell-hole.

Often he

had to

encircle

such

holes.

More than

once he

bounded

headlong

down into

a gaping

crater and

scrambled

up its far

side.

These

erratic

moves, and

the

nine-hundred-yard

distance

(a

distance

that was

widening

at every

second)

made the

sharpshooters'

task

anything

but an

exact

science.

Mahan's