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 be sent on their last journey, and bushels of éclat, compression bands and time fuses. I found a perfect top of a German "150" (six inch) shell, loaded with shrapnel; but it was so heavy I had to drop it after a few hundred yards. I also picked up five Bochefusées, some pieces of compression band from a ten inch shell and the base of a torpedo. I put them in the side box of my car as soon as I got to the post again. Bouvier heard about our plans for returning in the evening a short time after we arrived and was so opposed to our going that we gave up the idea for the moment. Sammy Lloyd and Harrison started for Montzèville not long afterwards and I went back to Dombasle, where I now am, Bradley having relieved me at half-past eight.

It will be hard, leaving our cantonment here tomorrow. For although we will be delighted to have a short rest in some quiet little village, nevertheless our work here has been very interesting and we do not look forward with much pleasure to the repos life of Longeville and Jubécourt.