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we have a brazier with a blazing fire going in it all day and by sittiing almost on top of it we are able to keep warm. Without the fire I don't think any of us would survive the cold. The French people tell us it is the coldest winter they have experienced in twenty five years.
Our tea was brought in steaming hot to-night & after filling our mess tins and placing them round the fire we put the dixie on one side and by the time we had finished tea the remnant in the dixie was frozen over.
Yesterday I was watching an old man opposite chipping the ice off the stone floor in the hall. He had a kettle of hot water and

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