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to follow him fairly closely, he told me where he lived, about his children, how they could speak English, we talked about the crops this year there has been too much rain, the beans have the blight & just acres of them have suffered  they are just a black smudge on the landscape.

Leaving him I coasted down the hill past a huge cement works & quarries - the country is all chalk around here - & into the town.  Seeing the PCs under separate cover I roamed in & purchased them, speaking French I saw some English cards, the lady was quite pleased when I translated the reading into French for her, in fact she got quite excited as the French do & started to gabble French to quick telling me of her sons who were at the war, one a prisoner in German hands, calling her grandchild she told me the

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