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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9042, 12 July 1917, Page 2

Trench life lias so far affected our ideas ot! things in general that it has made it possible to repeat stories that three"'years' ago would have gone to waste. Ono of them, says a writer in an English paper, comes to me thus:—"A man in my platoon the other day felt .something biting the back of his neck, lie bent down and grabbed the beast; and while he was stooping a shell na.ssed over which would have taken hi's head off if it had been in its normal position. ' You little blighter, 1 ' he said to the— well, the assailant —' I can't give you the D.5.0., but I'll just put you back again.' And he did !"

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