[00:01.47]B On Christmas morning we stuck up a board
[00:05.21]with "A Merry Christmas" on it.
[00:07.56]The enemy has stuck up a similar one.
[00:10.28]Two of our men then threw their equipment off
[00:13.23]and staggered out of the trench
[00:14.97]with their hands above their heads.
[00:17.82]Two of the Germans did the same
[00:19.71]and they met and shook hands.
[00:21.91]Then we all got out of the trench.
[00:23.94]"Buffalo Bill" (our officer)
[00:26.06]tried to prevent in but it was too late
[00:28.56]so he and the other officers climbed out too
[00:31.16]and strolled over.
[00:32.76]We and the Germans trudged through the mud
[00:35.46]and met in the middle of no-man's-land.
[00:37.90]We mucked in all day with one another.
[00:40.15]Some of them could speak English.
[00:41.94]By the look of them,
[00:43.12]their trenches were in as bad a state
[00:44.95]as our own.
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