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They were mostly new and appeared to be only laid on the mud without any foundation. The few dug-outs I saw were incomplete, the trenches rather wet and shallow and not yet sandbagged. Although the firing had died down it continued sufficiently to enable me to keep my direction.
He himself felt that he needed a Power greater than his own, to steady him. Tom had just heard that he was to go on duty at the front trench again, when passing along by the canal towards one of the officers' dug-outs he saw a staff officer talking with the major of his own battalion. Tom lifted his hand to salute, when the staff officer turned and spoke to him. "Ah, is that you, Pollard?"
Larger boats than this are made of three logs, and smaller ones are dug out of one. Burnett told me that frame boats were so easily pounded to pieces on the shoals, that dug-outs were preferred being very durable.
How perfectly the operation was conducted noiselessly, swiftly, absolutely according to time-table may be gathered from the fact that two officers and sixteen Turks were awakened in their trench dug-outs at the ford by the river mouth two hours after we had taken the trenches. The officers resisted and had to be killed.
"Both the dug-outs at Wine House and Spree Farm were in fairly good condition, and from here with the remainder of the men we pushed forward towards Border House without much difficulty, and hence to Winnipeg, where we got into touch with the 1/6th Cheshires on our left, and proceeded to the Gravenstafel Ridge.
About two hundred yards farther on we ran into a veritable maze of trenches, barbed wire entanglements and dug-outs, without doubt part of the front line trench system. Needless to say we made a rapid right-about face and speedily retraced our steps by the road we had come.
In the midst of an interested crowd of half a dozen young officers was a youngster in grey cloth, with a mud be-spattered coat, a swollen face, and two bandaged hands. On the table were a coffee-pot, some cups, and biscuits, and a small heap of loot gas masks and bayonets, and such stuff from German dug-outs.
The ground was pitted with shell holes of all calibres some of them as fresh as mole-casts in the misty damp morning; others where the poppies had grown from seed to flower all through the summer. "And where are the guns?" I demanded at last. They were almost under one's hand, their ammunition in cellars and dug-outs beside them. As far as one can make out, the 75 gun has no pet name.
Against the red glow the black figures of "C" Company could be seen swarming up the slag-heap, clearing the two trenches, "Boot" and "Brick," on its summit, and sweeping on to clean out the dug-outs beyond. There were many Germans on and around the heap, and in a short time between 80 and 100 were killed, nearly all with the bayonet.
At another time, only a century or two ago, dug-outs of twenty feet or so were used in trade between the St Lawrence and the Hudson. They were of white pine, red or white cedar, or of tulip tree; and their crews poled standing or paddled kneeling, for they had no thwarts. They carried good loads, went well, with their canoe-shaped ends, and lasted ten or twelve years if tarred or painted.
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