. A village in Picardy . .The Germans had retreated before the advanc-ing French and British armies, and the ruinsof Canizy ere long were held by Scottishtroops. *Deux Annees dInvasion Espagnole en Picardie, Ledieu. CHAPTER II LE CHATEAU DE BON-SEJOUR T N Canizy, after the Germans were through-*■ with it, not one of its forty-seven housesstood intact. Most were roofless shells, orfallen heaps of brick. An occasional ell, abarn, a rabbit hutch, or a chicken house,—suchwere the shelters into which the returningvillagers crept. Nor was there had preceded destruct
. A village in Picardy . .The Germans had retreated before the advanc-ing French and British armies, and the ruinsof Canizy ere long were held by Scottishtroops. *Deux Annees dInvasion Espagnole en Picardie, Ledieu. CHAPTER II LE CHATEAU DE BON-SEJOUR T N Canizy, after the Germans were through-*■ with it, not one of its forty-seven housesstood intact. Most were roofless shells, orfallen heaps of brick. An occasional ell, abarn, a rabbit hutch, or a chicken house,—suchwere the shelters into which the returningvillagers crept. Nor was there had preceded destruction and loadedwagons had borne away the plunder of house-hold linen, feather mattresses, clothes presses,chairs or anything practicable, into through the ruins to this day lie ironbedsteads twisted by fire, the metal stands ofthe housewives sewing machines, broken farmtools and fire-cracked stoves. One day, be-side a half-demolished wall, I came upon agroup of little girls playing house. They had 16. - Uwut^v**- ****** OlAAS j **** **&** [What, another little brother?Yes, a little Belgian.] 17 18 A Village in Picardy marked off their rooms with broken bricks, setup for a stove a rusty brazier, and stockedtheir imaginary cupboards with fragments ofgay china. A grey, drizzling day it was, andtheir toy menage had no roof. But was itmore cheerless than the hovels they called theirhomes, where their mothers, like them, hadgathered in the wreckage left by the Germans,—a stove here, a kettle there, and a Bochebed of unplaned planks, perhaps, with an im-provised mattress of grass? I paused to re-gard the play house. What is this room, Iinquired. La cuisine was the quick this? La salle a manger. But thisnext? Une salle a manger came thechorus. Then all the rest are salles a man-ger? Assurement with merry , I see. Are you then so hungry at yourhouse? And I turned away with an uncom-fortable conviction that they were. One after another, if you l
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