Cover the Shadow With Sand
The soldiers had just moved to the desert, and as they had never been in such a place befor, they had
a lot to learn.
As there were no trees or buildings in the desert, it was, of course, very hard to hide their trucks
from enemy. plance. The soldiers were therefore given training in camouflage, which means ways of
covering something so that the enemy cannot see where it is. They were shown how to paint their trucks
in irregular paterns with pale green, yellow, and brown paints, and then to cover them with nets to
which they had tied small pieces of cloth.
The driver who had the biggest truck went to lot of trouble to camouflage it. He spent several hours
painting it, preparing a net and searching for some heavy rocks with which to hold the net down.
When it was all finished, he looked proudly at his work and then went off to have his lunch.
But when he came back to the truck after he had had his meal, he was surprised and worried to see
that his cannot flage work was completely spoilt by the truck's shadow, which was growing longer and
longer as the afternoon advanced. He stood looking at it, not knowing what to do about it.
Soon an officer arrived, and he too saw the shadow, of course.
"Well," he shouted to the poor driver, "what are you going to do about it? If an enemy plane comes
over, the pilot will at once know that there is a truck there."
"I know, sir," answered the soldier.
"Well, don't just stand there doing nothing!" said the officer.
"What shall I do, sir?" asked the poor driver.
"Get your spake and throw some sand over the shadow, of couse!" answered the officer.
士兵们刚刚移驻到沙漠里， 因为他们以前从来没有到过这样的地方，他们要学习的东西很多。
因为沙漠里没有树木和建筑物，要使他们的卡车躲过敌机当然是很办到的，因此士兵们受训进行伪装，也就是
说，要把一些东西隐蔽起来，不让敌人看到它在哪里。教给了他们如何用浅绿、黄色和棕色在卡车上涂上不规则的图
形，然后用网罩住它们，士兵们在网上还系了许多小布片。
一个司机，他的卡车最大，为发伪装车费了很大的力气。他花了几个小时涂画这辆，准备了一张网并且找到了一
些大石块来把网固定。这一切都 干完以后，他自豪地打量了自己干的活，就吃中饭去了。
但当他吃完饭回到卡车旁时，发现自己的伪装效果全给卡车的影子给破坏了，他感到又吃惊又发愁，而且影子还
随着下午时间的推移而越来越长。他站在那里望着影子，不知怎么办帮好。
不一会，一位军官走来，他当然也看见了影子。
“喂，”他对那位可怜的司机叫道，“你准备怎么办？如果敌机飞过，飞行员马上就会知道这里有一辆卡车的。”
“我明白，长官，”士兵答道。
“嘿！不要光站在那里发呆了！”
“我该怎么办呢？长官？”可怜的司机问。
“当然是拿起你的铲子，有沙把影子盖住呀！”军官答道。
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