about 8 miles to NOYELLES where we were billeted. This was quite a new experience to all of us, & is certainly more comfortable than being in camp. Four of us occupy rooms in this house Forbes, Miller, Edmunds the doctor & myself. The men are sleeping in hay lofts and barns & seem very comfortable. I have a room to myself very well furnished & so clean. The owner & his wife are very polite and anxious to make us comfortable although I am sure they must think us an awful nuisance. It is quite a small village and there are very few men in it, all having gone to the war. The officers are now living in companies messes & there is a Head Quarters mess with about six of us. The cooking is done in this house and we feed in the house opposite. I was told today by the Brigade Major that no letters will leave this country for three weeks.