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�I am an expert at it now. we are expecting 400 men to make us stronger and perhaps will not have to come into the trenches anymore for I think it will need the three of us on cook kitchen, wouldn't that great, would not be in any danger at all worth speaking of, I am not building air castles then I won't be disappointed. You cannot hear a sound. you would never think a war was on just now. Oh Yes! got two parcels from lassie [?] yesterday, 2 pencils, shaving soap, 4 plugs tobacco, and a box of chocolates all jammed up, they was good just the same. it was all gone before I got the cover fairly off. chocolates someone said and it went down the line like greased lightening, I told her to send thin stockings and she sent thick chocolates, probably coming later, but there should have been a letter with them anyway. x Two or three shells are going over [?] high up, can hear them whistle don't know where they are from or going.