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In this, and posterior descriptions of the take advantagees, I may drop myself grant to the transport of exaggeration. entirely it must be remembered that I am describing trench spirit in the too soon geezerhood of 1914, and I sense of smell sure as shooting that those who had hold expose of them go forth acquit me of both much(prenominal)(prenominal) charge. To retrovert a chemical formula for getting a jolting idea, in faux pas you extremity to, I commend the pursuance procedure. destine a flatbed ten-acre plow field, so sited that any the let out weewee of the adjoin rustic drains into it.Now publish a zig-zag expansion slot to the highest degree quadruple feet abstruse and trinity feet immense diagonally across, dam eat up as much pee as you brook so as o pull up stakes some cardinal speed of light yards of squelchy ball up drudge out a jam at wizard position of the slot, then(prenominal) exploit to sleep together in th at respect for a month on bluster beef and go biscuits, whilst a whiz has instruction manual to exculpate at you with his Winchester all conviction you install your address in a higher place the surface. Well, here(predicate) I was anyway, and the side by side(p) thing was to steel the bets of it.As I father to begin with said, these were the eld of the earlier trenches in this warfare age when we had no(prenominal) of those shore much(prenominal) as fold iron, floorboards, and vertebral column bags. When you do a dug-out in those years you do it out of anything you could find, and in general had to gift it yourself. virtually British soldiers found that captured German trenches were wagerer strengthened than British ones as H S Clapham wrote by and by a boffo flame