There were a number of Ghurka regiments in the neighbourhood, as well as some Guards battalions.

I had a service for the bomb-throwers in a little orchard that evening, and I found a billet with the officers of the unit in a particularly small and dirty house by the wayside.
Some of us lay on the floor and I made my bed on three chairs--a style of bed which I said I would patent on my return to Canada.

The chairs, with the middle one facing in the opposite direction to prevent one rolling off, were placed at certain distances where the body needed special support, and made a very comfortable resting place, free from those inhabitants which infested the ordinary places of repose.

Of course we did not sleep much, and somebody, amid roars of laughter (p.

080) called for breakfast about two-thirty a.m.The cook who was sleeping in the same room got up and prepared bacon and coffee, and we had quite an enjoyable meal, which did not prevent our having a later one about nine a.m., after which, I beguiled the time by reading aloud Leacock's "Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich." Later in the day, I marched off with our men who were going into the trenches, for the battle of Festubert.