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dance in the school at which all the village maidens attend but on account of their non dancing capacity they had to be wall flowers & didn't like it - except a pretty little French-English girl who spoke both languages fluently - & she is always greatly in demand. I might say I have to provide all the music & am becoming quite a dance musician.

I am postman at present for the unit & have to ride ten miles every day for the mail. It started to snow a week ago & now the roads are frozen & so slippery that horses can't stand up except with frost-cogs in their shoes & in any case it is too cold to ride - we have to keep warm by walking.

We are all well dug in in this little village. Ten of us - the Civic Club - we are known as - are established on a farm. We hand all our rations to Madam & she cooks for us. We have acquired a sister for the time being in Andre, the daughter. She is the usual French farm girl - happy go lucky - & gay as a young horse. She rules the house & us too - we are always

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