six in the morning
`` Not they , '' the soldier replied scornfully . `` They will find that it is a very different thing meeting our chaps in the open to what it is squatting in a trench , and blazing away without giving us as much as a sight of them . It is a beastly cowardly way of fighting , I calls it . I was not hit till just the end of the day , and I had been blazing away from six in the morning , and I never caught sight of one of them . I should not have minded being hit if I could have bowled two or three of them over first . '' After breakfast the surgeon said to the two lads : `` You will be sent off in half an hour ; all the slight cases are to go on . There may be another battle any day , and room must be made for a fresh batch of wounded . ''