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The inhabitants of Bethune the shopkeepers, and brave little families of France, and bright-eyed girls, and frowzy women, and heroines, and harlots came out into the streets before the battle of Loos, and watched the British army pouring through battalions of Londoners and Scots, in full fighting-kit, with hot sweat on their faces, and grim eyes, and endless columns of field-guns and limbers, drawn by hard-mouthed mules cursed and thrashed by their drivers, and ambulances, empty now, and wagons, and motor-lorries, hour after hour, day after day.
In actual battle they were hardly strong enough and could not carry all that burden of fighting-kit steel helmet, rifle, hand-grenades, shovels, empty sand-bags with which other troops went into action.
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