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Updated: June 8, 2025
A French School Our Soldiers and French Children Nissen Huts Tanks A Primeval Plough A Division on the March Significant Preparations Increase of Ammunition "The Fosses" A Sacred Spot Vimy Ridge The Sound of the Guns A Talk with a General Why the Germans Retreat Growth of the New Armies Soldiers at School. No. 3
The line was badly knocked about by the enemy fire, but was built up again by the Battalion in one night. In January the first Divisional rest for ten months commenced, and it was spent by the Battalion first at "Z" Camp and then at Proven. The weather at this time was intensely cold, and as the men in "Z" Camp had only Nissen huts they suffered greatly in consequence.
Outside, five yards from the door, lay the body of a British officer. A brown blanket covered all but his puttees and a pair of neat, well-made brown boots. Through an opening in the hedge we came upon more Nissen huts. One of them was divided by a partition, and would do for a mess and for officers' sleeping quarters.
California Camp, the Normans' jumping off point for their IN and OUT occupation of the trenches and working parties when not in the former, was composed of a collection of tiny huts constructed on similar lines to the Nissen. The attractions peculiar to this obnoxious assortment of pygmy habitations were two: could not lie down straight in them, absolutely impossible to stand up.
Many of the most beautiful anecdotes of Mozart's life we owe to Nissen's gentle unjealousy, and Constanze could frankly sign herself "widow of Staatsrath Nissen, previously widow of Mozart." She includes an anonymous poem on Mozart's death, beginning: "Wo ist dein Grab? Wo duften die Cypressen?"
They broke into a tempest of applause, and that was the beginning of the "Lind madness," which, commencing in Berlin, ran through Europe with such infectious enthusiasm. During the remaining three months of the Berlin season, she was the musical idol of the Berlinese, and poor Mlle. Nissen found herself hurled irretrievably from her throne.
I believe the inventor, Mr. Nissen, is an American and here's my hand to him as an ally who maybe saved me from rheumatism, and I am sure thousands of boys from the other side of the world bless his name continually. The whole brigade was practically bogged when we came to move forward.
I see you men know your way around in this army." Stan and O'Malley saluted and moved off. O'Malley grinned. "Slick work, Stan," he said. "Now we won't get blamed for anything." "And we won't get a medal, either," Stan remarked as he matched O'Malley's grin. Returning to their Nissen hut the boys policed their living quarters and got things in order.
We ate bully sandwiches solidly until 1 A.M. Then the major and the adjutant descended to their little room below ground. I glanced through 'The Times, and then Wilde and myself found a restful bed upon the shavings. The cook and the servants had gone back to the Nissen hut. The major's last words as he fell asleep were, "I've to be at the th Infantry Brigade Headquarters at 4.45 in the morning.
Nissen, who had been with herself under Garcia's instruction, and it was a little humiliating that she should be obliged to sing second to one whom she knew to be her inferior. But she could be patient, and bide her time. In the mean while the sapient critics regarded her with good-natured indifference, and threw her a few crumbs of praise from time to time to appease her hunger.
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