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were waiting for me to help in my work the next day the French Director sent me where I wanted to go a ride in an auto brought me near my place the I walked saw the captian [[captain]] delivered my message [[strikethough]] with [[/strikethrough]] while the cannons were booming my head and the shot [[strikethrough]] wl [[/strikethrough]] humming through the air it was not dangerous for us because the bushes [[Bosches]] were on the run which you know by this time it was a grate [[great]] sight. to see them moving there [[their]] army so fast. beyond a canal which we could see quite plain then I walked towards a grate [[great]] city in the North of France and saw the wonderful church which has been much destroyed. in this desolate city there was nothing but ruins. + wine such fine wine to  finest beyond the chirch [[church]] and hastly [[hastily]] arranged [[strikethrough]] cort [[/strikethrough]] court yard many souldrs [[soldiers]] were gathering all the time the Colon [[Colonel]] invited me to lunch and for the First time I had to