Only too glad, dark
as it was, we rolled up our damp bundles and put them in the waggons
with the sleeping people, who awoke, pink-eyed and puzzled at the sudden
progress forward of their uncomfortable beds. Whatmough, who was
convinced that the bombs and gunshots of the night before were spent
Austrian shells sailing over the hill, said--
"That's the first time I've ever liked a fellow sleeping on my face."
One of the Stobart nurses, who had used the remains of the hay as a
pillow, had been awake all night trying to prevent a hungry horse from
eating her hair along with the hay. With determination she had donned a
Balaklava helmet and trudged along all day in it, even later when the
sun came out. Blease, too, started the chillsome dawn in a Balaklava
wearing shawlwise a rug that had been made of bits of various coloured
woollen scarfs. Jan used as a protection from the rain Jo's white
mackintosh apron filleted round his head with a bit of string and
dangling behind with a profusion of tapes and fasteners.
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