51: Chapter 49. Hazel Comes Home The Watership Down Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/468458781496287/?ref=share This episode is scripted by John Ruths and Newell Fisher. The pre-chapter quote is military in nature and is surely about the First World War.  But it can really apply to any armed conflict. It's clear that the two folks that the poem is about have survived their war.  To have been "lucky devils" not everyone made it.  It's clearly a reference to Hazel and Bigwig.  They 'made it' and no one in the warren had come as close to death as they each had.       A "fusil" is an old flintlock rifle.  So, typically, a fusilier is a rifleman and riflemen are infantrymen, even to this day.  The chapter opens with some general comments about Woundwort...pun intended.  We'll never know if Wouldwort 'made it' or  ...