Strange to write a letter from foreign lands especially with censorship. "This country is very old fashioned..." Wagons are all two wheeled, the horses all look fine and well kept, the trains are off looking. Good quarters, living in billets in town: "all the people seem to be very poor but I think if the soldiers are here very long they will be lots more prosperous after this war as I have heard some of them say that the Americans brought prosperity to France." Have a church nearby and will be going to confession "as I don't think we will always have such a good chance to go."
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