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[26th Aug. contd]
Down into the next valley & in due course arrived at Senninghem where the people apparently had never seen Australian before. An incident here. I pushed into an estaminet to purchase some fruit. Three Tommy Segts were sitting down & we [were] possibly billeted there. As soon as the lady of the place caught sight of me she hustled me out in spite of my protestations. She though I wanted beer and the hours for liquor are 12 to t & 6 to 8 daily. One of our boys got annoyed at this & told her in Australian that we have burnt down places for less than that.
We dragged ourselves away & were chatting to a NZ outside and suddenly the old dame came rushing out & could not do enough for us – inquiring whether we were staying in the village etc. Her sudden change of mind was phenomenal . However we ended square there as we left the village laden with 2 hatfuls of apples for a franc & distributed them to Tommies on the road. One Tommy on guard though couldn't be induced to pick up two we threw him. In time we arrived at Lambres & after some trouble got an excellent meal at Café Francais & waiting for the Boulogne train to arrive we got some papers & caught the midget train again.