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few seconds & then see the earth spout - but they are quite harmless at that distance. Last time I wrote Jack & I were on duty at the hospital. But I with a lot of others were suddenly called away one night & sent to the trenches. Jack was sick & couldn't come. We hadn't arrived there long when we got a stretcher case. He was a chap about 13 stone & four of us had to cart him in relays through about a mile & a half of trenches back to the A.D.S. Imagine what a job we had - the duckboards were covered with ice & were a bit slippery & the trenches pretty narrow with sharp corners. We could only carry about 50 yards in one relay & slipped & slid all over the place. Our patient was a Briton - he got a terrible shaking up & had a painful

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