fired。 I watched the sudden round puffs of shrapnel smoke in the sky above a broken farmhouse near where the line was； soft puffs with a yellow white flash in the centre。 You saw the flash； then heard the crack； then saw the smoke ball distort and thin in the wind。 There were many iron shrapnel balls in the rubble of the houses and on the road beside the broken house where the post was； but they did not shell near the post that afternoon。 We loaded two cars and drove down the road that was screened with wet mats and the last of the sun came through in the breaks between the strips of mattings。 Before we were out on the clear road behind the hill the sun was down。 We went on down the clear road and as it turned a corner into the open and went into the square arched tunnel of matting the rain started again。
The wind rose in the night and at three o'clock in the mornin