"I'm going to bombard that," he announced, and then try to
batter it down and roll over it like a Juggernaut. Are you
game?"
"Do your worst!" laughed Ned. "Let me man one of the
machine guns!"
"All right," agreed Tom. "Concentrate your fire. Make
believe you're going against the Germans!"
Slowly, but with resistless energy, the tank approached
the ruined factory.
"Are you sure there's no one in it, Tom?"
"Sure! Blaze away!"
Chapter XV
Across Country
Ned Newton sighted his machine gun. Tom had showed him how
to work it, and indeed the young bank clerk had had some
practice with a weapon like this, erected on a stationary
tripod. But this was the first time Ned had attempted to
fire from the tank while it was moving, and he found it an
altogether different matter.
"Say, it sure is hard to aim where you want to!" he
shouted across to Tom, it being necessary, even in the
conning tower, where this one gun was mounted, to speak
loudly to make one's self heard above the hum, the roar and
rattle of the machinery in the interior of Tank A, and
below and to the rear of the two young men.
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