en at home,
that they should make themselves so offensive in France, even during a
truce. At one o'clock I left this orgie of German terrorism in a train,
and from thence to Calais all was straight sailing. At Abbeville we
passed from the Prussian into the French lines. Calais we reached at
seven p.m., and right glad was I to eat a Calais supper and to sleep in
a Calais bed.

THE END.

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