. At the front in a flivver. in of it, Vic Whiteparticularly. We had to shoot the little woolly ribs were crushed by a car, poor littlebeggar! Section 8 has gone en reposandwe are now working with new English andFrench Sections. We have had no troublewhatever in holding up our end so far. Anattack on Souville last night was Townsend was up there, and had asplinter clink off his tin derby; thefirst time Ive actually known of theirbeing useful to us except to keep the rainoff. In the trenches when only the headis exposed, of course, they are very useful;but judging from the
. At the front in a flivver. in of it, Vic Whiteparticularly. We had to shoot the little woolly ribs were crushed by a car, poor littlebeggar! Section 8 has gone en reposandwe are now working with new English andFrench Sections. We have had no troublewhatever in holding up our end so far. Anattack on Souville last night was Townsend was up there, and had asplinter clink off his tin derby; thefirst time Ive actually known of theirbeing useful to us except to keep the rainoff. In the trenches when only the headis exposed, of course, they are very useful;but judging from the general line of solidivory nuts we ve got with us, other partsof the body require more protection thanthe dome! Ive become very humble of late. I,honestly, never realized what an awful assI must have been at the start until (en-tirely involuntarily) I was forced to listento the idiotic drool pulled by some of thenew men in the watches of the night. Theyall regard themselves as young Atlases NELSON. EDWARD TOWNSEND, AND ROCHE. LOADING AN AMBULANCE WITH THE HELP OF A GERMANPRISONER VERDUN 129 supporting France and the world throughthe grace of God and Ford. And oh, thoseeternal arguments about the whatevernessof whichever! — or words to that effect —when all that it is necessary for them toknow and do, is to crank a car and steerit to where they are told to go! July 10. Having had swims in theSomme, the Marne, and the Meuse, weare now looking forward to a paddle onthe Rhine. I have a hunch that beforevery long there may be an attack to theeast of Verdun beyond the , or possibly right there. My onlyreason for this is the advent of freshSenegalese and other Colonial attackingtroops, such as we saw on the the Russians on this front are yet tobe heard from, while their brethren on theother side are doubtless doing as nouvelle! I have been given anew car; not a made-over wreck, but a realnew one. July 11, 4 I am writing here atthe Etain-
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