TAILIEUCHUNG - Bullets & Billets

Gliding up the Seine, on a transport crammed to the lid with troops, in the still, cold hours of a November morning, was my debut into the war. It was about 6 . when our boat silently slipped along past the great wooden sheds, posts and complications of Havre Harbour. I had spent most of the twelve-hour trip down somewhere in the depths of the ship, dealing out rations to the hundred men that I had brought with me from | 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII Bullets Billets CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXI CHAPTER I p CHAPTER II p CHAPTER III p CHAPTER IV p CHAPTER V p CHAPTER VI p CHAPTER VII p CHAPTER VIII p CHAPTER IX p CHAPTER X p CHAPTER XI p CHAPTER XII p CHAPTER XIII p CHAPTER XIV p CHAPTER XV p CHAPTER XVI p CHAPTER XVII p CHAPTER XVIII p CHAPTER XIX p CHAPTER XX p CHAPTER XXI p CHAPTER XXII p CHAPTER XXIII p CHAPTER XXIV p CHAPTER XXV p CHAPTER XXVI p CHAPTER XXVII p CHAPTER XXVIII p CHAPTER XXIX p CHAPTER XXX p CHAPTER XXXI p Bullets Billets 2 The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bullets Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Bullets Billets Author Bruce Bairnsfather Release Date February 23 2004 EBook 11232 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 CHAPTER I 3 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BULLETS BILLETS Produced by Jonathan Ingram Steven desJardins and Distributed Proofreaders Bullets Billets By Bruce Bairnsfather 1916 TO MY OLD PALS BILL BERT AND ALF WHO HAVE SAT IN THE MUD WITH ME CONTENTS CHAPTER I Landing at Havre--Tortoni s--Follow the tram lines--Orders for the Front. CHAPTER II Tortuous travelling--Clippers and tablets--Dumped at a siding--I join my Battalion. CHAPTER III Those Plugstreet trenches--Mud and rain--Flooded out--A hopeless dawn. CHAPTER IV More mud--Rain and bullets--A bit of cake-- Wind up --Night rounds. CHAPTER V My man Friday-- Chuck us the biscuits --Relieved--Billets. CHAPTER VI The Transport

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