Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 12
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uniform of remote-blue. One of them is angling with a rod and line for the edible frog.
Hidden up to their udders in the growing fodder of the meadow are several cows of the color of deep brown that darkens to their prominent points till it has the effect of having been burnt: their white horns furnish the most intense highlights in the picture.
On the left where the meadow is closed in by a hedged lane there are about a hundred soldiers of the British Army digging a trench that may be required for defence purposes later on: They use only short-handled shovels for the soil is soft: Those portions of the trench already completed by them cannot now be traced by the eye for the whole of the breast works above the surface are neatly camaflaged with sods of living grass. In the near foreground,