Then I slept and smoked alternately, and began to get furiously hungry.
Once I woke to hear the soldiers discussing the war.

There was an argument between a lance-corporal in the Camerons and a sapper private about some trivial incident on the Somme.
'I tell ye I was there,' said the Cameron.

'We were relievin' the Black Watch, and Fritz was shelling the road, and we didna get up to the line till one o'clock in the mornin'.

Frae Frickout Circus to the south end o' the High Wood is every bit o' five mile.' 'Not abune three,' said the sapper dogmatically.
'Man, I've trampit it.' 'Same here.

I took up wire every nicht for a week.' The Cameron looked moodily round the company.