Fixed Bayonets! Page #5

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see you roll in Brooklyn.

Say, pin boy.

Set 'em up.

It's like anything else, Wolowicz.

Women, liquor, horses.

As long as you know how to

handle them, you can beat them.

All right. Here. Let's see you

knock down one pin.

With this guy, I think we better

set 'em up in the gutter.

- Yeah, to make sure that he hits.

- Don't forget to let go of the ball.

He couldn't bowl his way

out of a paperbag.

- Oh, what a guy.

- Send him back to the kitchen.

- He's a rush a lineJoe. - You bowl

just like you shoot. That's lousy.

- Let's see how good you are.

- I think he stinks.

Hey, Denno, get me the helmets

and weapons of those dead guys.

It worked.

We spotted their gun.

You guys set?

Our tongues

are hanging out.

3-5-0, right.

3-5-0, right.

You knocked out their gun.

- How about those people, tried to get

through? - There's lots of them there...

but they're all sayonara.

Send up Bigmouth, Zablocki,

Griff and Bulchek from the third squad.

That means they'll probe

every area with mortar.

- How do you figure that? - Well, they

just scouted with mortar, didn't they?

Or did they send out people first?

It means they got plenty of mortars.

That was smart drawing fire

with guys made out of snow.

- Plenty smart.

- Yeah, you build a good snowman, Jonesy.

Yeah, you going to make statues

when you get out, Jonesy?

- I'm staying in.

- You like the army that much?

It's better than anything

else I can think of.

Everybody's always worried about

coming out of this.

- Who cares?

- I care.

You'd care too, Mainotes, if you

had a reason for coming out of this.

All right, knock it off,

and go back to the cave.

Go on, Fitz.

I'll be right with you.

Denno. Come here.

Like ice. Look, Denno,

I know you're a brave Joe.

It took guts to go

down there and get Lonergan...

no matter what

your personal reason was.

But it takes more than guts

to stay alive in this business.

You've got to get over

that big hump.

There's eight bullets in that clip.

That means eight dead Reds.

I ain't asking you to

use a clip to kill eight men.

I just want you to kill one man,

even if you've gotta use the whole clip.

But kill him!

Now, getyourtail

down there.

When dowe get a crack

in that cave, Rock?

- Yeah, we're putting in for transfer

to your squad. - Shut up!

You guys want to move in that cave,

you let me know at 9:00...

and I'll hand it over to you,

swimming pool and all.

- What's eating him?

- You ask him!

Never mind asking anything.

I'm telling you.

You guys better

stay on the ball.

These Commies take 10 hours

to belly 10 yards without being seen.

And don't relax for a minute, or you'll

wake up with a bayonet in your back.

They move in fast.

They move out faster.

It'll happen all of a sudden,

without a sound.

Keep all points covered.

- I told you he was favoring 'em.

- What's behind that crack?

Some of the guys think you're

playing footsies with your own squad...

- since you took over the platoon.

- Oh, some of the guys, huh?

You see that?

That's Jonesy's ear.

Got shot off a couple

of minutes ago.

Hang onto it to remind you

how I'm playing footsies with my squad.

So that's Jonesy's ear.

- Are you sure?

- Sure, I'm sure.

Hey, ain't

that right, Fitz?

- Sure. - Hey. Fitz, did you

hear him say he smells 'em?

- Yep, that's what I heard.

- Well, that did it.

- Is that bad?

- Bad? You know, they used to say...

an Indian could put his ear

to the ground and hear the enemy...

but Rock,

he uses his nose.

He sticks it up in the air and...

- he can smell a Red a mile away.

- I guess some guys are born with it.

No, it's a mixture

of training and instinct.

- I used to have a nose for winners

at the track. - What time is it?

It's a little

after 7:
00.

We'll be moving out soon.

Hey, Fitz.

Griff. Are ya sure you don't

see anything out there?

Look, Rock, we got

eight eyes up here...

and there ain't an inch of snow

we don't know now by heart.

Yeah. Well, the smell's getting stronger.

Don't relax for a minute.

Bulchek didn't mean that crack about

your squad. W-We were just riding you.

Forget it.

- How's Jonesy?

- Okay.

I got it here

in my pocket, Rock.

I thought maybe

they could graft it on.

Throw it away.

It's tore up too much.

Vogl?

You asleep up there?

Between you and this quiet,

Rock, you're getting us jumpy up here.

You got a reason to be.

They're so close now they stink.

What're you trying to do?

Take 10 years off us? We don't see nobody.

- Hey, Griff.

- There's nobody out there, Rock.

We keep lookin'any harder,

we'll get snow-blind.

I been through this before. There's

something cookin' on that Commie stove.

Nobody out there, Rock.

I think I spotted

a movement out there...

about 200 yards to the left

of that little hill.

It looks like a Chinese hat.

Do you see it?

Are you looking?

Griff, can you hear me?

Griff, what's the matter with you?

Griff,

what's the matter with you?

Hey, Griff...

Do you smell anything?

What does he mean it stinks?

I don't smell anything.

Are you looking?

Griff!

What's the matter

with that radio?

Denno, I'm going up

to check on Griff.

Let's go!

Medic! Medic!

Hey, stay away from back there.

There's a deep drop there.

I've been hit.

- Start cuttin'.

- I can't cut it myself.

Sure you can.

Here's your chance to be a real medic.

At least they can't

hit us in here.

You know what I think? I think they're

trying to knock off that top ledge.

And then they'll drop one

on the lower ledge...

and hope that the fragments

get us inside.

That's what I think.

What's the idea? You crazy?

You want to blow your top?

Well, go out there

and blow it.

Haven't you ever

heard of telepathy?

- Telepathy?

- Telepathy.

It means if you think something hard enough,

the thought waves go through the air.

Sometimes they go this way.

Sometimes they go this way.

Sometimes they go

straight up.

If you think hard enough,

the thought wave...

is gonna hit them up there,

and they'll do it.

All right!

So I'll think of dames.

They must've read your mind, Borcellino.

They're trying to hit that ledge.

- Let's get that stuff inside!

- Hey, come on, you fellows!

You heard the sergeant!

Hey, you, Big Deal! Come on.

Move that lead in there. Come on.

What time you got?

Almost 8:
00.

We gotta hold till 9:00.

That's what the colonel said.

Look!

I did it myself.

Look. I cut it out. Me!

Thanks, Jonesy.

Look at the size of that!

I didn't know

I could handle a wound.

Say, I'm a surgeon.

- Look.

- Okay, Wheeler...

then come on overhere,

and give me one of them knife jobs.

What are you

waiting for, Doc?

Jonesy.

Hey, you know what

I'd do if I was a Commie?

No, what would you do

if you was a Commie?

I'd plant myself right in the middle

of that hill out there.

Then all I'd do is fire one bullet

smack into this cave.

Just one bullet. I know

ricochet'd do the rest.

Ricochet's

for the birds.

Well, I guess you're wrong.

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