Ah--there goes a shell on the Hun line--another! Can't think why we're tuning up at this time of day.

We shall be getting some of their heavy stuff over directly, if we don't look out.

It's rot! 'And the sun is shining like blazes on it all.

As I came up I saw some of our men resting on the grass by the wayside.

They were going up to the trenches--but it was too early--the sun was too high--they don't send them in till dusk.