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not to leave Paris at present.  The difficulty of getting out are great just now any way for in the beginning people all wanted to go out & see battlefields and corspes & went joy riding continually in Red Cross cars etc. | I wish you could have seen the little Schneider and Champoiseau.  You have really missed an experience in not knowing C.  He is one of those dashing people whose object in life is to get as many sensations as possible.  He has many of the qualities as well as the faults of the Frenchman.  Having been a racer all his life and having missed coming to America this year for the big race he considers that everycourse is a race.  He was given to Mr Bacon at the beginning of the war and Mr Bacon took a great fancy to him.  He is splendid talker and quite the best chauffeur.  I have ever driven with.  I think I looked pretty businesslike tucked in alongside of Champoiseau, he of course in his uniform & behind Dr Gros & Mr Bacon.  Phil was 

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