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set to work feeling as though I deserved a DSM. and laboured steadily for about 5 minutes. At the end of that time I straightened up in the proud satisfaction of having the trench cleared once more. Then I continued to delve. The perspiration trickled down my face making little channels in the dust. I developed a thirst. The thought of the canteen was delectable in anticipation but absolutely painful by contrast with the moment. Well we marched out and fell in again alternately so often that I lost count. The sides continued to fall in and when we got out and shifted back the sand we had thrown out it fell in more than ever. Eventually we had to leave it When we had got down about 3 feet, The only there one of the things we did not try to calculate was the quantity of sand that