But I am afraid I did not listen closely. My
eyes were so busy that my ears loafed on the job.
For once in my life--and doubtlessly only once--I saw now
understandingly a battle front.
It was spread before me--lines and dots and dashes on a big green and
brown and yellow map. Why, the whole thing was as plain as a chart. I
had a reserved seat for the biggest show on earth.
To be sure it was a gallery seat, for the terrace from which we started
stood fully five hundred feet above the bottom of the valley, and we had
ascended approximately seven hundred feet above that, giving us an
altitude of, say, twelve hundred feet in all above the level of the
river; but a gallery seat suited me. It suited me perfectly. The great
plateau, stretching from the high hill behind us, to the river in front
of us, portrayed itself, when viewed from aloft, as a shallow bowl,
alternately grooved by small depressions and corrugated by small ridges.
Here and there were thin woodlands, looking exactly like scrubby
clothesbrushes.
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