billet is over a pig sty & the pigs are at home & stink like Hell. The old fat sows keep us awake all night with their noise & stink. had supper out, had quite a job to get any on account of the ding-dong I guess my French was tired. To the hay at 8.30 PM.
Tuesday Sept 26. Feel fine & dandy except a little tired, Breakfast at 7.30. shave & good clean up at a pump in the village street took a walk around Arques with Bob Hard. hot mulligan for dinner. leave Arques at 1. PM. arriving at Eperleque after dark. 8.15 PM. marched 12½ miles, nearly everyone is tired out to-night. A section grab some tents B & C sleep in the open. first stage of our march over. 41 miles in three days full pack, in hot weather I feel none the worse for it. Wed SEP 27. Hang around camp all day Thursday SEP 28 Lecture of B.S. by Hank. Put on officers mess & am eating all day awfully sick during the night. I
