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detached soldiers were not gathering the crops. The reaper mowed, the children gleaned, the helpers piled the bundles into intertwined stacks. The land was radiant.

At Bazoille-sur-Mense We visited an immense base hospital during our ride (Base 116) ^[[42, 18, 81]] and there saw many of the American troops trussed up in pulley devices and in all degrees of confinement. There were cases such as these of badly fractured legs, cases where a patient had carried a bullet in his back for a day or two, cases of gasing where oxygen and plenty of fresh air assisted in the rebuilding of shedded ^[[lung]] tissue,  cases of shell shock with the horrible uncontrolable twitching of nerves and muscles.

The buildings were spread over a whole valley giving a clustering effect