Bullets & Billets
Bullets & Billets
I do not claim any unique quality for theseexperiences. Many thousands have had thesame. I have merely, by request, made arecord of my times out there, in the way thatthey appeared to me.
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Back I went to the station, and in due course rattled off in the train
again towards the North.
A fearfully long journey we had, up to the Front! The worst of it was that nobody knew--or, if they did, wouldn't tell you--which way you were going, or how long it would take to get to your destination. For instance, we didn't know we were going to Rouen till we got there; and we didn't know we were going from Rouen to Boulogne until, after a night spent in the train, the whole outfit jolted and jangled into the Gare de Something, down by the wharf at that salubrious seaport.
We spent a complete day and part of an evening at Boulogne, as our train did not leave until midnight.
[Illustration: having a smoke]
I and another chap who was going to the next railhead to mine at the Front, went off together into the town and had lunch at a café in the High Street. We then strolled around the shops, buying a few things we needed. Not very attractive things either, but I'll mention them here to show how we th
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