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The only thing to hope for is that it will run its course and perish like "What ho, she bumps!" and "Now we shan't be long!" without leaving any visible and permanent trace upon the language. "Clicked," another word used by my trench-feet associate, resembles much modern slang in the breadth and elasticity of its application.
More galling still, we are back in the region of squad-drill, physical exercises, and handling of arms horrors of our childhood which we thought had been left safely interned at Aldershot. But the authorities are wise. The regiment is stiff and out of condition: it is suffering from moral and intellectual "trench-feet."
In the casualty clearing station by Poperinghe more mangled men lay on their stretchers, hobbled to the ambulance-trains, groped blindly with one hand clutching at a comrade's arm. More, and more, and more, with head wounds, and body wounds, with trench-feet, and gas. "O Christ!" said one of them whom I knew. He had been laid on a swing-bed in the ambulance-train.
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