English Translation

-10- 107 In the evening we sat in front of our open fireplace and quarreled about how to shift the sheets so that they would burn down quite 2 slowly without the fire going out. But there was no right mood. On both sides of the fireplace we had built up benches of wide flat stones, because the Arauten knew no seating furniture and had made us crooked and lame the perpetual lying on the vanished mats. Our benches were always very artistic and comfortable for us, today they were hard and uncomfortable. We just wanted to lie down when we heard someone get over the ladder leading up to the men's room. There was a knock and the black corporal came in. He stopped at the door in an official position and reported that he was missing out on vacation. We stared at him like a vision. The three comrades screamed at him after they had taken him: whether he was crazy, what he thought he had, what reason he had and just he had always drilled because of the original permission and could not evaluate him. vwe was scary and I was silent. He wanted to stay here, said the corporal, and the next one, who was entitled to go on vacation for him. He looked at me, I had talked about being my next one. He greeted and went. The comrades could not calm down for a long time and broke their heads, which could have moved the corporal to renounce the long-awaited vacation, and finally they owed me, half in sight, I secretly agreed with the corporal so. I couldn't make an eye out for the rest of the night. At dawn we were ready to go on the village road. The headmaster of the village aeek had been made to understand in the evening with much effort that we would need a car, because we should be driven to the battalion command. With some tutoring and after a long wait it also and two lean, small buffaloes drove me a low ladder. The little ringel went suspiciously