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November 16, 17
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After a wash this morning, back in the Billet. Clarrie and self over to Q.M's for boots we put in for yesterday during foot inspec. In a corner of the store, we were told we'd find a bag of boots, get a pair from those… all were salvage – and old unmatching pairs….
Such is the issue manner of the 1st Field. .. If it wasn't for our own salvaging the unit would be worse than the most tattered Boche prisoner after his capture in the deep mud.
After 10 parade – with Frank D., out down the valley with sketch books. Frank sketched a fine little winding road and a cluster of farmhouses. I grouted more apples than were good for us.
Mail this morning, "Philip the King", "Lily of Malud" and "Twelve Poems" from Beaumonts, with a most courteous apology for their delay.
Now for a reading, in the O.R. by a good wood fire.
Tomorrow for the road again…
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Last night at 9, word of no move today… postponed till tomorrow…
Frank carries with O.R. equipment, a small library –
Masefield's Prose Anthology
Masefield's Phillip the King
J.C. Squires' "Twelve Poems" & "Lily of Malud"
Wilde's 'De Profundis', Vernide's War Poems
Keats… and Rupert Brooke…
Bob S. with wagons carries le Gallienne's "Romance of Zion Chapel" and Gorki's "My Childhood", both half read, and "The Moods of Ginger Mick"…
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And a Book Mail tonight after a walk through yesterday's wood, with Frank S., "Chantelard", "Sacrifice" and "Good Friday".
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Diana has given birth to five pups…Spotty is the proud father…
In our Billet with the Bearers a great roaring fire- and a yarning [indecipherable] about it… down in the cold vaulted dairy cellar, the A. Tent Section….
A great and enjoyed route march this morning – a compleat circle about the Billet… past the wounderful wood – flaming rioting colour, inspired in Johnny the memory of Zig-Zag, and a clear flat platitude from the 'living corpse', "The triumph of vulgarity!"