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 was long after midnight when I got back to La Harazee. To my surprise I found Haven had been sent to Suniat with three couchés, and not ten minutes later they brought down a load for me. I thanked my stars that it had not come while I was out with Amulot. On the way down I learned that the blessés I was carrying had been wounded in an outpost near the mine in which I took the last picture and at the very time we were down in it.

There is great rivalry in the section to see who can do the most exciting thing in the trenches at La Harazee. Several days ago I hung around an observation post about fifty yards from the enemy's lines until I finally got a glimpse of the steel plate of a Boche post and apparently the eye of a sniper behind it. It disappeared after a while and a minute later I saw the smoke from his cigarette floating upwards some distance further down the trench. . . . Then on Saturday, when OttKann and Harrison were there, they yelled over to a Boche and had a short conversation with him and ended with the heads of both sides above the trench. . . . Gilmore and Payne thought they would go them one better, and the next time actually go over with a lot of bread and chocolate; of course they intended to make arrangements beforehand to meet him halfway; and since they both speak German this would not be hard. The idea may seem absurd but it has