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 (a concoction which tastes likes oats), and chocolate mush as the big items.

I have just returned from the regular nightly rat hunt. It is a pastime not very well known in America but very popular here at the front. Every evening we collect our clubs and flashlights and raid an old barn near the river. Two or three of us usually rush in together, flash our lights about until we spot a rat and then fall upon it with our sticks. It takes a good clean shot to kill one and we consider ourselves lucky if we get two or three in an evening.