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Which four lines in this excerpt from stephen crane’s “an episode of war” show that there were poor medical facilities during the civil war, and the injured were not properly tended to in the field hospital?
the low white tents of the hospital were grouped around an old school-house. there was here a singular commotion. in the foreground two ambulances interlocked wheels in the deep mud. the drivers were tossing the blame of it back and forth, gesticulating and berating, while from the ambulances, both crammed with wounded, there came an occasional groan. an interminable crowd of bandaged men were coming and going. great numbers sat under the trees nursing heads or arms or legs. there was a dispute of some kind raging on the steps of the school-house. sitting with his back against a tree a man with a face as grey as a new army blanket was serenely smoking a corn-cob pipe. the lieutenant wished to rush forward and inform him that he was dying.
a busy surgeon was passing near the lieutenant. "good-morning," he said, with a friendly smile. then he caught sight of the lieutenant's arm and his face at once changed. "well, let's have a look at it." he seemed possessed suddenly of a great contempt for the lieutenant. this wound evidently placed the latter on a very low social plane. the doctor cried out impatiently, "what mutton-head had tied it up that way anyhow? " the lieutenant answered, "oh, a man."

when the wound was disclosed the doctor fingered it disdainfully. "humph," he said. "you come along with me and i'll 'tend to you." his voice contained the same scorn as if he were saying, "you will have to go to jail."

the lieutenant had been very meek, but now his face flushed, and he looked into the doctor's eyes. "i guess i won't have it amputated," he said.

"nonsense, man! nonsense! nonsense! " cried the doctor. "come along, now. i won't amputate it. come along. don't be a baby."

"let go of me," said the lieutenant, holding back wrathfully, his glance fixed upon the door of the old school-house, as sinister to him as the portals of death.

1.the drivers were tossing the blame of it back and forth, gesticulating and berating, while from the ambulances, both crammed with wounded, there came an occasional groan.

2.great numbers sat under the trees nursing heads or arms or legs.

3.there was a dispute of some kind raging on the steps of the school-house.

4.sitting with his back against a tree a man with a face as grey as a new army blanket was serenely smoking a corn-cob pipe. the lieutenant wished to rush forward and inform him that he was dying.

5."well, let's have a look at it." he seemed possessed suddenly of a great contempt for the lieutenant.

6.his voice contained the same scorn as if he were saying, "you will have to go to jail."

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