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(4)The major issues his orders and we are soon in columns of route passing from the camp on to the metalled road, and forward away, while yet the darkness is unwilling to be gone.As we march on the echoing hardness we gradually fall into step with an easy swing. The troops in splendid cheer strike up a merrily whistled tune.As yet there hardly any light on the earth. It is nigh impossible to see the road at our feet, and difficult to make out the forms of men in the second section of fours in front of us.Still we are wrapped in shadow which is not of gloom but of silvery night
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