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Mr. Woods was just hitching up for a drive to Placid and said he would take us along.  It was a great help to have this eight mile ride as it would enable us to reach Placid in time for the 11:30 train.
   We stayed long enough at the farm to read a three-day old paper. A glance at the dates in this account will explain our interest in the papers.  Probably the world has seen no more exciting month in its history than August, 1914. While I was at Cohasset, a little motorboat had passed up the lake bringing New York papers, the words, "England declares war", ringing out over the waters. We had thereafter occasionally seen a paper, generally three or four days old, on our trip. To-day at the Woods Farm the papers told of the fall of Liege and the German drive on Paris.  This very day as we were in the peaceful Adirondacks, the Germans had driven the Belgian army off towards Antwerp, had
[[b/w image in center of page: upright broken dead tree trunks with forest foliage and mountains in the background]][[caption underlined: Whiteface Mountain from the Woods Farm]]
occupied Brussels, and were ready to sweep on into France.
   Placid was reached just in time to get the train.  On the drive