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Excerpt from From the Somme to the Rhine
Left for Canaples, near Amiens, at 8 am. As the train only averaged about eight miles an hour, we were eleven hours on the road, and did not reach our destination until seven pm. It was intolerably hot in the carriage so we took it in turn to sit on the footboards. At Anvin during an hour''s halt I managed to procure a tin of salmon and a bottle of lime juice from a hut.
At Canaples, my companion, a fine old quartermaster, in the East Surreys, and I billeted ourselves very comfortably in a farm, and in the morning Madame gave us some excellent coffee and eggs, which we ate in the kitchen. I have never seen so many ?ies in my life, the table, walls and food swarming with them. They are bred in the horrible middens which all these French farms have in their yards, and the inhabitants appear indifferent to this pest.
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Left for Canaples, near Amiens, at 8 am. As the train only averaged about eight miles an hour, we were eleven hours on the road, and did not reach our destination until seven pm. It was intolerably hot in the carriage so we took it in turn to sit on the footboards. At Anvin during an hour''s halt I managed to procure a tin of salmon and a bottle of lime juice from a hut.
At Canaples, my companion, a fine old quartermaster, in the East Surreys, and I billeted ourselves very comfortably in a farm, and in the morning Madame gave us some excellent coffee and eggs, which we ate in the kitchen. I have never seen so many ?ies in my life, the table, walls and food swarming with them. They are bred in the horrible middens which all these French farms have in their yards, and the inhabitants appear indifferent to this pest.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Seabury Ashmead-Bartlett
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ISBN - 9780265908037
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm
Page Count - 220
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Seabury Ashmead-Bartlett
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ISBN - 9781331233749
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm
Page Count - 222
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