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French bullets (these trenches were taken over from the French you know) the Dead Mans Curve (where as many American Muleteers were "cooled") the "cimetiere" with its newer graves - several of these -, the hayside grave, the cave dwellers - hillside dugouts behind the lines, mud, smells, the German lines across No Man's Land.

We walked interminably without meeting a solitary soldier. We plied up and down and crisscrossed in and out of muddy traverses where we had to duck our heads and wonder where we were going.  

Quite without knowing how we stumbled on a sleeping soldier who couldn't tell us how far it was to the front lines. He'd only been in a few hours, he said, so we followed our own crookedy bent and again stumbled onto