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and were "chatting" their underclothing, i.e., removing the vermin therefrom & casting the insects with caustic comments into the fire. This gruesome feature of the actualities of warfare made me shudder but our Corporal said comfortingly, "You'll soon get used to them, old boy; there's no escape from them". And so I eventually found. Even the officers, who have special privileges in the way of changes of clothing, & can keep their blankets separate & have orderlies or batmen, as they are called, to wash their things, can't escape the pest altogether.
In the morning the weather was clear & bright
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