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folks on their way home from the Market after selling their butter cheese & turkeys & fowls. They had had a good day as they appeared to be happy until the horse fell down in the snow & they could not get it up. So Scotty & I helped them to get it up & they asked us to go along with them which we did, the roads to Boulogne are very hilly it was at the top of one of these hills we pulled up at a Estaminet (Pub) & we had drinks in there. The old lady pulled out pig's trotters & a long loaf of bread & beautiful butter & what a feed we had, to say nothing about wine & etc. Half an hour later we were arm & arm singing along the road, its a long way to Tipperary, French songs English songs such as goodbyee & Scotty obliged with a Scotch song