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learned to play whist. It is an interesting game, and superior to Euchre.
Captain Mahone gave us a puzzle this morning. Plant 4 small trees equal distance from each other. He wants an answer in the morning.
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There was a very good concert this afternoon in the mess tent given by a company drawn from various Battalions and called Periots. They borrowed a piano from the Y.C.A. in Steinwerck. The programme consisted mostly of comic songs [indecipherable]
The doctors were present & the Colonel presided.
Sunday papers to hand are mostly a rehash of the weeks news. There is another raider on the Atlantic. She is a sailing ship with some form of combustion engines. She carries the Norwegian flag & shows signals of distress to attract her victims. A French barque has landed at Rio de Janeiro 200 survivors from sunken vessels off Trinidad.
Wednesday April 4.1917
There was some very heavy showers last night. This morning is dull & cloudy but calm. This morning there was a gas alarm, and everyone had to have his respirator or gas helmet at the ready. There was no gas, & the object was to