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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918

1918-02-24 Conger Reynolds to John & Emily Reynolds Page 4

as I left it this afternoon it expired. The wood and coal in this country are too exasperating; the first being undried and the second chiefly slate. 
We have really needed fire. Early last week it was cold, fully as much so as some of the February weather at home. And from Thursday morning on we had a constant drizzle until last night. The roads and paths and streets have been an awful mess. One can't go ten yards outdoors without slopping through a layer of greyish slime that covers everything. That is France in the rain. In the smaller towns there are no sidewalks like at home but instead macadam pathways and cobbled walks that, like the roads and paths and streets, take on this coating of thin mud. It spatters all over the lower part of one's anatomy, but one soon becomes used to it and splashes along unconcerned.

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as I left it this afternoon it expired. The wood and coal in this country are too exasperating; the first being undried and the second chiefly slate. We have really needed fire. Early last week it was cold, fully as much so as some of the February weather at home. And from Thursday morning on we had a constant drizzle until last night. The roads and paths and streets have been an awful mess. One can't go ten yards outdoors without slopping through a layer of greyish slime that covers everything. That is France in the rain. In the smaller towns there are no sidewalks like at home but instead macadam pathways and cobbled walks that, like the roads and paths and streets, take on this coating of thin mud. It spatters all over the lower part of one's anatomy, but one soon becomes used to it and splashes along unconcerned.