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86very snug as I said. I gather they were to have a "hop-over" the following morning but owing to the inclemency of the weather this was postponed.
Mud, you never saw anything to equal it. Squelch! Squelch, and such a job to pull my foot out of it.
The 55th informed me that Fritz was out in a very shallow trench in the midst of the mud-ocean as I will call it and he was being pelted with our artillery which was quite out in the open and lined up wheel to wheel, 18 pounders in front, 60 pounders and so on right back to the heavies.
All good things have an ending and I had to eventually leave the 55th
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