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St. Vish Germany

5th Dec 1918

My dear brother

This has been a great day. In the first place the weather was wonderful - mild as milk clear + some sunshine. The scenery has been glorious where we were today - of a sort of Scotch character - hills clothed with small Norwegian spruce + mixed brush of all kinds, thick heather + moss. Lovely mountain streams + game of various kinds particularly wild boar, deer, foxes + blackgame.

For another thing it was the first day off I have had for a long time.

Eight of us made up a shooting party, armed with service rifles + the revolvers we are never allowed to be without. We motored back across the Belgian frontier to a district where the Crown Prince used to enjoy the shooting (from all local accounts the Army was the last thing he thought of). We were taken charge of by a garde champetre who marshalled his 20 odd beaters + placed us along a narrow ride. One fox seen but not fired at was all that the guns reported for the first drive but there were evidently pig of large size about judging from number + quality of their tracks. Several other drives brought nothing to the guns though the beaters reported having started men