And their comrades would laugh delightedly and race toward them, stumbling over the furrows.

They were as happy and eager as children picking wild flowers.
It is not good for troops to sup entirely on horrors and also to breakfast and lunch on them.

So after in the trenches one regiment has been pounded it is withdrawn for a day or two and kept in reserve.

The English Tommies spend this period of recuperating in playing football and cards.

When the English learned this they forwarded so many thousands of packs of cards to the distributing depot that the War Office had to request them not to send any more.
When the English officers are granted leave of absence they do not waste their energy on football, but motor into Paris for a bath and lunch.