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"Pennee" & "Cigarette". They are like the Kaffir children at Durban for begging, only more persistent.
Most of the hay has been cut & now is lined in Stooks for miles ready to be carted & stacked. The French women & children do a great deal of field work. A good many French soldiers seem to be assisting in field work.
Small boys - they appear about 4 or 5 - smoke cigarettes with great deliberation a & apparent enjoyment.
There many canals & drains - necessary to drain the fields - with hardly any current at all.
I placed 2 Australians, 2 Scotties, 3 Englishmen under arrest yesterday evening for stealing apples from a French garden where we pulled up, but I relented after a bit of rough talk to them. About 1500 of all ranks are on this train.