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Every man stood up ready to seize his rifle on the chance of a morning salutation from the Huns.   But nothing transpired & presently Lieut Armitage sauntered over from one of the other trenches with a gallon rum far under his arm.   He sat at the end of the bench close to the corpse of a gigantic young Teuton.   We had a stiff nip all round & it livened us up considerably.   It had a fine bouquet, a quality of rum in fact that cannot be obtained for money.

The day dragged slowly on & we were discussing the probability of being relieved in the evening.   We did a quickly quiet little bit of sniping at 800 yards, but the Hindenburg

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