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November 27, 28
heavy rain during the night and early morning – and a starting in thin drizzling rain.. played to the Billetings by the two reinforcement pipers – to the excited wonder of the peasants of the road. Passing Samur, made on margin of Literary Supp. a rough note of the rather fine tiled façade of one of the pretty domestic houses. Tonight it makes the first sketch in new sketch book. Harry J. accepts tonight commiss. in M.Gs.
A sing song…Serg. Sellers leading – a good voice, and fine to hear. Sully and Harry make well self appreciated backgrounds.
No mail drawn today: we the only movers of the Brigade, probably will be attached now to 1st Brigade again, being in their area.
150. November 28
Evening, a fine day. Morning B. and C. Sections fatigues. A. in supports, A walk with Ridge and half a dozen others to a near high hill.. and a most magnificent view of rich sombre greened and browned country.. Picardy and an autumn day. Read there half of Masefield's perfect 'Philip the King': Mail brought "The Second Diary of the Great Warr" and "Twenty Six Poems", illustrations – a decoration to first 'diary' finer and richer than those of the 2nd by F. Ketterwell, Fish – who's lately illustrated Frankeau's "One of Us" would have been a more suiting 'decorator'. Now my library's bigger than its been before: means the necessity for the sending away quickly of some: and there's reading in them for months. Today too, Nick finds the lost sandbag – thank God for the turning up of the autographed 'Ginger Mick'.. of the 45 autographs on one page, 20 would be the most I could get together again.
A letter long overdue, to Mrs. H. tonight: must send to Betty post of Ypres I bought in Poperinghe.
Conscription proclamation out on the walls… a scheme of selective conscription almost – in it too many loopholes of escape. The vote will be for…there's strangely little argumenting.