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to day than ever it did before.

All day long there was scarcely a big gun fired, it was unaturally quiet, but we had no idea of the frightful storm of shell that was shortly to follow & nearly wipe us out Just before dinner the Colonel came round he was as pleased as Punch & his usually stern face had a broad smile on it he had a bit of a yarn to Jock Mackie & I we were sitting on top of the trench sunning ourselves, he reckoned we had done wonderfully well & was delighted with the boy's

We were not deceived by the quietness of things, for we worked all day long putting in fire steps &

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