mostly are, it means a slaughter/. before you can get to sleep. The next day is devoted mostly to getting the mud and dirt off ourselves and equipment and the N.C.O. looking round for our shortages before we can have pur inspection by our Coy O.C. and then the Colonel generally a day after. Its most likely a surprise to you to know that we shine all our brass and keep our appearance up as much as we can while out of the trenches as when we were in Blighty or Canada. The rest of our rest consists of a little drill and mostly at what ever line of business you are following such as a bomber rifle grenades sniper, machine gunner, scout and runners lastly which I have been nearly all the time I have been in France outside of the first few months. I was first a platoon runner but since last summer just before I was wounded I was promoted to a Coy runner and am back in the same job again. Well Dad our rest is over say, and we are going back up tp the line with the best of luck as some lucky boy whobis bomb proff calls out to someone he knows as we are marching up the way most people would choose the other way. It might be we are going first in reserves before ging in the front line, that means working parties, either digging trenches or clearing some out and repairing then or making strong points or wiring, in fact it takes in so much thatb when you start out you never really know how many jobs will prop up. The part arrives back, first the kitchen and just before you lay down its generally to your pal "what'd you think of the job tonight. Of course we generally have our opinion passed on it before going to sleep. We