rifle-rag

Updated: July 21, 2026

Taking a good breath, you always do this before entering a trench dug-out, he plunged into the noisome cavern where his Company Signallers kept everlasting vigil. The place was in total darkness, except for the illumination supplied by a strip of rifle-rag burning in a tin of rifle-oil. The air, what there was of it, was thick with large, fat, floating particles of free carbon.

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