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had ask me for nextde on my cigarette so I did the best I could with it. And they all had a little smoke from it. That night I were to tend guard and all day be for I slep I wish it would be a good night. BUt I wished in vain for it were a rainen all day and it were doeing it now. The time came and all were on post with blankeds around them to keep warm. We did not have any overcoats with us so we took blankets in-sted. There is no man can stand that a gan. No madder how good he is. I will say this mutch, if any man were in that frong line trenches, for eight months or more he will and can not do it a gan we nnever took of even oir shoes in thous trenches ontell we got back to where we were to rest up at and it is


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all ways twenty days out of a month we put in the front line and more to at times i no see my shoes, on me, for more then thirty days be for i could pull them off so that one reasen I say no man can do it a gan he may have the well. But his bidy can not stand it but at the time we did not cear oir geve it a thought. There were one theing; i did wont bad, and that were a cigarette and i did not no where i could get one for not a man that i new had any tobacco. i new when i came in from nomanland i made a cigarette with all of the tobacco i had, and i give five boys some of it. so you see i did not have mutch of it and now i could not see a smoke and it made it a tuff night for me every time i seen one of the boys