Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 111
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each other leaving scarcely a sod with a living blade of grass between them. The general appearance imparted to the land by this wide-spread pocking and upheaval suggests the visitation of some ill curse of colossal magnitude.
Up at the lurid front of raging conflict there is at this moment a sector of the battle-field where several still-rooted trunks of trees splintered and riven, stand the most conspicuous amongst the few remaining indications of a village that had been but is now no more. It is difficult to believe that a large community of simple Peasants, comfortably housed, once dwelt there in peace.
Somewhat apart from the village site, in staggering pose, is all that remains of a solitary tree less shattered than the others but perhaps a more hopeless spectacle being as it is as naked as a skeleton and with broken branches like