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laid irregularly among the shell holes.   A slip off any of these duck boards meant immersion in one of the holes, all of which were almost full of water.

I heard one of the boys behind me say:  "Old Dad (meaning me) is bound to come a cropper before we get through".   All the same I got through without an accident.

In the afternoon, all more or less exhausted we reached the wreck of a fine village, the streets of which were cobblestoned & the survival of some really fine houses were evidenced by the walls & gateways.   In France the term village means more than it does in England, because

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