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that made the sweat run, and with a heavy trench coats as protection against recurrent showers we went in.

And we walked and walked and walked. I did a bit of looking around and next time I'm going to do a bit of questioning. Today I was taken up with the clean cut trees knocked over by shells, the barbed wire defenses, the pitchy dark dugouts, gun pits, wrecked bridges on the Thiamount railroad, the new railroad lines of the U.S.A Engineers, the shell holes along the way, the marks of war on Flirey where every building was over half reduced and the church tower was only a quarter standing, the shell cases, hand grenades, packages of