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we were off.  The excitement was not gone.  The same as [[strikethrough]] the first time [[/strikethrough]] ^[[on the first trip]], although now we were going to a far more interesting zone.  [[strikethrough]] and I knew that my interest would be immediately aroused once in the radius of the war. [[/strikethrough]]

At Echouen we were stopped several times  It is one of the big forts of the [[strikethrough]] Cha [[/strikethrough]] Camp Retranchement of Paris and played a big role in the war of 1870.
"This is the road I used to go over", Bob said sadly from time to time.  "In the far away days when I went to see my little friends up there".

We had never traveled so fast before and the faster we went the faster Champoiseau wanted to go.  He ate up the roads with the little Schneider [[strikethrough]] and the [[/strikethrough]] one long [[strikethrough]] stretch [[/strikethrough]] ^[[piece]] after another vanished almost as soon as it appeared.

Stretching over the fields were what looked at first like ^[[gigantic]] serpents but on

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Fort d'Écouen