Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 39

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[Page 39]

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day. And at times we can see a pale flash above the horizon as though there was distant lightening in the air,
Now we are passing a tented hollow. Candles are lit and troops are moving and cursing and laughing here. Horses are being harnessed and chains are clinking.
'Snowy' in our moving ranks mentiones that it is the camp of the twenty -- th battalion, and Scotty concludes that the boys there are astir for an early move like ourselves. A runner on a motor cycle flashes by like a mechanical ghost, filling the air with a rapid volley of sound which soon fails

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