FOOTNOTES:
[10] Trench vernacular for wine.
[11] Coffee—Tr.
[12] Jean Gouin is the personification of everything witty, brave and odd about the Marine Fusiliers, the French soldiers of the sea. One of them is always referred to as Jean Gouin. The Germans learned to respect him very deeply in the first days of the war.—Tr.
[13] Singe—literally monkey. Vernacular for canned beef or meat.—Tr.
[14] Petite Marmite—Soup cooked and served in a small earthenware or metal receptacle or pot. Also, term used for German shell of big caliber.—Tr.