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Most of them were now ready, but a good many men were still at work. The brown hillocks lay all about the church-yard the mole-heaps of burrowing Death. The stranger looked around him. His face grew critical. He stepped a little hither and thither. At length he turned to me and said "I wadna like to be greedy; but gin ye wad lat her lie next the kirk there i' that neuk, I wad tak' it kindly.
The trenches ran along low ground between the wood and the River Douve; on the left the famous hill of Messines peered into our positions, and though itself barely 200 feet above sea-level loomed like a mountain among the mole-heaps of Flanders. The distance between the opposing lines varied from 450 to 250 yards. The amenities of trench life depend almost wholly on the enemy and the weather.
He once noticed mole-heaps of a peculiar kind in a field of sainfoin, and it looked to him as if this mole worked in a way of his own, quite unlike the others. The hills he threw up were a good distance apart, and so large that you could fill a bushel measure with the mould from any one of them.
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