. A village in Picardy . conspicuous; but the more pic-turesque feats of that terrible emergency hadbeen preceded by a long winter of quiet material results were largely wiped out;the spiritual results will remain. It is themethod of that work as carried on in a singlevillage that is described in this little we have read it we know what kind ofpeople these were who clung to the remnantsof their homes in the midst of desolation. Theircharacter and temper are depicted with kindlycandour; they were very human and very muchworth saving. When the time comes for re-construction on
. A village in Picardy . conspicuous; but the more pic-turesque feats of that terrible emergency hadbeen preceded by a long winter of quiet material results were largely wiped out;the spiritual results will remain. It is themethod of that work as carried on in a singlevillage that is described in this little we have read it we know what kind ofpeople these were who clung to the remnantsof their homes in the midst of desolation. Theircharacter and temper are depicted with kindlycandour; they were very human and very muchworth saving. When the time comes for re-construction on a large scale, such an accountas this will be of value in enabling us to realisethe nature of the task and in teaching us howto set about it. Smith College is proud of what these grad-uates have done and are doing; and this noteis written to assure the Unit rather than theoutside world that those who have to stay athome see and understand. William Allan Neilson. Smith College, Northampton, Mass, A VILLAGE IN PICARDY mi. dul7au2t mars 1917^. „Y//A Avancefranco-Bngktse du2fmars tiuS matnTTTi batailte detaSomme fSQlSSONS^^ Quiffet-Tiavembrel916). / The German Retreat A VILLAGE IN PICARDY CHAPTER I UN VILLAGE TOUT OUBLIE AS a relief visitor, in a Unit authorized bythe French Government an secours dansla region devastee, I have lived recently in theDepartment of the Somme. There I had inmy care a village with a personality which Iventure to think is typical of Picardy. Assuch, I would present it to you. It was on a winters morning, by snow andlantern light, that I traversed for the lasttime a road grown familiar to me throughmonths of use, the road which led from ourencampment, known as that of the DamesAmericaines at Grecourt, past the railroadstation of Hombleux to the hamlet of Canizy. 4 A Village in Picardy It leads elsewhere, of course, this road; to themilitary highway for instance, which hasalready seen in the last three years threemomentous troop movements: the advance an
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