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see the mules & men going sky high & now & again some maddened beast would break loose & gallop for his life down the lane of death those drivers must have had fine nerves to carry on like they did, this transport work is nothing near the cop it was at one time.
Our rations came up late this morning they had some difficulty getting past the cross roads on Westhoek ridge the Germans were shelling it heavily, so consequently all our fatigue parties were late getting away. Got a little packet of photos from England today they were those I took of Peggy while in Edinburgh. Fritz dropped gas shells about us nearly the whole night long, but luckily the wind blew it all away from us, & so saved us the inconvenience of sitting for hours in our helmets gas is a thing that has lost all its terror for us long ago, & it is a greatly exaggerated danger taking