village, but it's rather an unhealthy spot at present.

---- trench is a new trench that poor Fritz dug just before he was
driven out of it. I had seen lots of dead Fritzes there the day before.
Also there were reports of curious things flung out into the mud in and
round the village.

[Sidenote: TROPHIES]

So I set forth. And at ---- met another fellow I knew, and the affair
became neither more nor less than a search for souvenirs. Here is a
list:

1. A few buttons with double-tailed lions.

2. Four shoulder-straps with the figure 6 in red. This indicated a
division which has been opposite us for some time and is quite
exhausted, I think.

3. One haversack and one respirator haversack.

4. One rosary.

5. Five different sorts of bayonets from different regiments. These
I thought we might hang up.

6. Four tassels. They are worn by Fritz rather in the same sort of
way as lanyards are worn. Quite pretty, though rather soiled and
worn.