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with my wallet ^straps & just get them fixed when - "Get mounted" - & we are off again. We ride on until about 11 pm & unsaddle on a plain near a grove of trees. Mulelbis - but we didnt know at the time. We feed up & wait for our limber which contains our picketing rope. Not a sound is heard & one would never have dreamt the enemy was We do not hear a sound & can hardly realise that the front line is only a few miles away. Midnight - & the limber hasnt arrived so I fill my old kit canvas kit bag with sand and hitch the old mare to it. The saddle cloth is rather damp but [maleish ?]. It is strange that on this never to be forgotten night with all the excitement, I am asleep as soon as I laid my head down. my head touches the ground.
19th 3.30 am. starlight & all is quiet. Feed & saddle up. I am shaking with excitement, for this is the beginning of