With the Serbs in Macedonia

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special and well-deserved order of praise from
the General Commanding.
For a week or two it continued painfully cold
in tents at night. One experienced the greatest
difficulty in sleeping warm, and would wake up
shivering, however cunningly one had rolled
oneself in one's blankets. Then low tempera-
tures became a thing of the past, and spring
came gradually upon us. Daily we watched the
snow melting on the mountains, and many and
beautiful were the effects of the rising and
setting sun and moon. But as everybody
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nowadays hates scenery," the temptation to
reel off a few pages of it is resolutely overcome.
The vans that were not working were overhauled
and washed and polished till the men
were sick of the job. Even the copper terminals
of the ignition wires were burnished and the
dents taken out of the mudguards. But still
our springs did not arrive, though we did
ultimately get a large quantity of spring steel
which enabled us to turn out home-made
for ourselves. We used to wonder if we
springs
were destined to stay there staring at the hills
till the War was over, and another favourite
speculation was what would happen to us in the
event of a retreat. The Monastir Front was by
no means secure, and Monastir itself was daily
suffering a serious bombardment.
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