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the fields, guns partially covered with straw to hide them ^[[from the eagle eye of aviators in Taubes 3 -]], rows and rows of carts also partly hidden, men moving about.  Or again a large number of cavalry on the distant hills to the east reconnoitering or practicing.  Men leading horses, lines and lines of ravitaillement, we were looked at with much interest, but stopped less frequently than near Paris.  At Agencourt just south of Montdidier is the Harjis Hospital.  They were at Roye but had to move as it is now occupied by the Germans.  Roye is 14 K. away.  They have had 62 wounded since the beginning.  The country was lovely all through here and I listened still for the cannon, but with no thought that I should really hear it, for in spite of all the troops and the general air of movement, ^[[x]] France appeared calm and her sloping hills torn up with trenches, her men weighed down by their knapsacks, the supply carts without end which blocked every village, all were a dream and could not mean that men just a little ways off were 

Transcription Notes:
ravitaillment or supplies (food)