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� 2 it is to take a trench away from the G---, rifle fire, all kinds of shells from big guns and little, there the machine guns, facing them. and I am* [ * Each word is underlined in still smiling and pegging this sentence.] away. They thinned us out quite a bit, but we are still here, and thinking about getting out of this part of the line. The deafness I spoke about is still hanging on, cannot hear anybody speak to me in an ordinary tone of voice, but I think it will pass off gradually but it makes me kind of nervous all the same. Yesterday we all watched a G--- aeroplane come down, the machine