FOOTNOTE:

[7] See Chapter XV.




XI

AT G.H.Q.[8]

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| Billet de Logement. |
| |
| Mme. Bonnard, 131 rue Robert le Frisson, logera les sous-dits, |
| savoir: un officier, un sous officier, deux hommes; fournira le lit, |
| place au feu et à la chandelle, conformément à loi du 3 juillet, 1877.|
| Délivré à la Mairie, |
| le 31me Janvier, 1915. |
| Le Maire ---- |
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The Camp Commandant, who is a keeper of lodging-houses and an Inspector
of Nuisances, had given me a slip of paper on which was inscribed the
address No. 131 rue Robert le Frisson and a printed injunction to the
occupier to know that by these presents she was enjoined to provide me
with bed, fire, and lights. Armed with this billeting-paper and
accompanied by my servant, a private in the Suffolks, who was carrying
my kit, I knocked at the door of No. 131, affecting an indifference to