December 29, 1918
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Raining all day. Spent several hours on equipment. At night the village ran a ball and I went along to see how they did things, Entrance 1F., fair sex free. The floor was of tiles and after every couple of dances they spread ashes, perhaps because it was too fast, it made a sticky surface of mud. The music consisted of 3 brass instruments and was much quicker than what we are accustomed. Altogether ‘twas a rough but honest show with the soldiers taking command of all the best dancers.