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If you pass through the Menin-Gate at Ypres, and walk up the slight rise / that lies on the other side of the moat, you will come to the parting of / the ways. You will at the same time come to a spot of unprepossessing / aspect, whose chief claim to notoriety lies in its shell-holes and / broken-down houses. If you keep straight on you will in time come to the / little village of Potige; if you turn to the right you will eventually / arrive at Hooge. In either case you will wish you hadn't.
Before the war these two roads -- which join about two hundred yards east / of the rampart walls of Ypres -- were adorned with a fair number of / houses. They were of that stucco type which one frequently sees in / England spreading out along the roads that lead to a largish town. / Generally there is one of unusually revolting aspect that stands proudly / by itself a hundred yards or so from the common herd and enclosed in a / stuccoesque wall. And there my knowledge of the type in England ends.