noon
I , who was often reckless enough in my talk , exclaimed that for me seeing was believing , and that I did n't expect any help but an enemy 's knife if I was found lying out there wounded . It was the next day that things got lively on this bit of the front . Our big guns roared from sunrise to sunset , and began again in the morning . At noon we got word to take the trenches in front of us . They were two hundred yards away , and we were n't well started till we knew that the big guns had failed in their work of preparation . It needed a stout heart to go on , but not a man wavered . We had advanced one hundred and fifty yards when we found it was no good .