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We find out afterwards that the l)attery fire was not so deadly as might 

 have been anticipated by anyone who did not know that the bursting 

 shells were nothing more than ground mines fired, as we advanced, by 

 electricity from the switch shown on the preceding page. 



So our illusion is over. We shake hands, for we have done imcommonly 

 well, but we want to come again. 



