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ever. It is built of gray sandstone * We are billeted in ia hay loft of aand is of gothic design with the lancit windows of stained glass depicting events of the life of Christ. In its walls one can see the marks of manybarn which belongs to a typical old French peasant With all the politeness so characteristic of the French people and true to the custom of thebullets, the results of some old battle.{land he made us welcome on the firsta i i • 11 1. _ I il. _ ►_____• 1 .. 1 *. * t l inNear a buttress is a small hole in the wall which opens into the main tran-scipt which is known as the “Leper’sevening by bringing up several bottles of big white wine and insisting that we each drink to his health. Wine issqiut”. Through it in by-gone days, j to the people here what coffee is toafflicted ones who were forbidden to enter, might receive the blessing of the priest. This and many otherus. Every one drinks but no one drinks to excess.We are 'the first American soldierspoints of interest were obligingly quartered in the town. The French pointed out to us by the old jlady who people love the Americans. They will
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Wabash Plain Dealer
Wabash, Indiana, US
Wed, Sep 11, 1918
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