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itself deep in the mud before detonating. Had the ground been hard and dry, I’d have been dodging flying steel instead of mud.
So, tricing it all round, I'm mighty thankful that we haven't aa "Somme” to look forward to this year.
Am sor£y that I disappointed you by not having a decent picture telen when we were in Paris. I've been kicking myself ever einoe because we didn't. However, what wae undid can’t be did.
Only hope that the one we did have taken will be satisfactory.
And while on the subject of pictures, I, too, hope that "Jack” makes a better job of the four of you then he did of Marjorie in the old familiar position in front of the holly tree.
Mail came in just a couple of minutes ego. One letter for me, or rather two, for Pella and Polly both wrote. So Polly has landed Karl at last. Well, it took her four years to turn the .triok and die ought to be satisfied now. Ineidently the letter was over two months on the way.
Two minutes to eight; so I'll have to get on the job.
Hope my Paris letters have reached you safely ere this.
As ever,
Yours lovingly,
PREP
A.M.P.S. in Prance,
October 4th, 1917.
Pear Mother and Pad,*
Nothing speoial to write about, but thought I'd better drop a few lines while I had the chance, for in ell probability we'll be busy for the next couple of weeks, for reasons that I am unable to state at present.
Am on duty as a night stretcher beerer here, end as things have been fairly quiet on this front of late, haven't a great deal of werk to do. In fact after having sunper at midnight we can usually figure on sleeping till about six o'clock, when the ambulances are due back from the A.P.S. Breakfast at seven, then turn in till noon. Get up then, have a wash, and loaf around till seven, Then we go on duty again. Nothing very exciting about that life, is there?
When we came down from the A.P.S., from which I last wrote you, to this plaoe, it was the first time I'd been here since last May. This town had a population of some ten thousand before the war, and must have been a very pretty place. But after
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