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(39)a childish toy, or the fragments of a plaster saint.Or maybe the whole of these simple items in a little heap togetherAnd side by side with such pathetic signs of a vanished home and its lost or scattered humanity, there might be found a German bayonet or bomb, rusted with damp and curiously streaked by the silver traverse of a snail. And in close touch with this evil evidence of the enemy there may be a packet of French cartridges, covered with mildew and green with verdigris, while near by lie the green-grey rags of a German overcoat and parts of a British equipment.
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