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were neatly piled on cases handily placed.  The drill was shown us and impressed us all as clever work.  It is indeed, for consider the difficulties of calculating and firing rapidly enough to fool the aviator who changes course and altitude frequently.  We learned just what to do to dodge archie and his terrible woof woof; and shrapnel, [[strikethrough]] [[??]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[we were told]] goes outward from the burst in a cone, while H.E. (high explosive) is a growing sphere. Rapid change of direction or side-slipping will, in the future, be my particular care in passing over an archie battery.
Going down the Moselle we passed through the towns such as Pompey where the iron and steel furnaces rear their smoke-belshing chimneys into the sky.  Poor Pompey. It is where we get, or got, not a few distress calls of a German plane doing reglage, and it certainly shows the effect of German artillery fire.  Withal, in spite of many bruised houses, no more glass windows, and not a few wrecked homes the