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Louise Liers correspondence album, 1911-1919
1918-09-02 Page 3
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but when we are I will send some money home to you to carry the stock through the winter and also to send Mrs. Dewey. I hate to talk about it so much but I don't want you to think I have forgotten. I'm sorry now I didn't tend to it while I was still in the states. Four of us took a walk to a town about 5 1/2 miles from here the other day and had supper there. None of us spoke French very well and it is rather difficult to get food so we asked the woman what she could give us to eat, she said eggs bread and coffee. That sounded pretty good as eggs are $1.00 per doz here. Imagine our surprise to have served to us soup - omelet - pickles - steak - French fried potatoes - lettuce salad - Roquefort cheese grapes and coffee. Everything was deliciously hot and served from the stove through a hole in the wall right onto the table. We had a boy in a two wheeled cart drive us home. We saw a very lovely garden there. There were real pumpkins tomatoes endive beans all sorts of flowers and cantaloupe ripening under glass bells; green vegetables are rather hard to get here because our camp is so large and the people haven't yet learned what we like. We hope to have gardens of our own in the spring if we aren't too busy. I haven't written to any of the boys since coming here but will some of these days. I suppose the new
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but when we are I will send some money home to you to carry the stock through the winter and also to send Mrs. Dewey. I hate to talk about it so much but I don't want you to think I have forgotten. I'm sorry now I didn't tend to it while I was still in the states. Four of us took a walk to a town about 5 1/2 miles from here the other day and had supper there. None of us spoke French very well and it is rather difficult to get food so we asked the woman what she could give us to eat, she said eggs bread and coffee. That sounded pretty good as eggs are $1.00 per doz here. Imagine our surprise to have served to us soup - omelet - pickles - steak - French fried potatoes - lettuce salad - Roquefort cheese grapes and coffee. Everything was deliciously hot and served from the stove through a hole in the wall right onto the table. We had a boy in a two wheeled cart drive us home. We saw a very lovely garden there. There were real pumpkins tomatoes endive beans all sorts of flowers and cantaloupe ripening under glass bells; green vegetables are rather hard to get here because our camp is so large and the people haven't yet learned what we like. We hope to have gardens of our own in the spring if we aren't too busy. I haven't written to any of the boys since coming here but will some of these days. I suppose the new
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