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Updated: May 1, 2025
In the short space of time succeeding their arrival three steers of the herd that followed the column had been knocked in the head under a great oak-tree, skinned, and cut up. Lapoulle had to return for bread, which the villagers of Dontrien had been baking all that afternoon in their ovens.
The officers said that all the four corps would bivouac that evening on the line of the Suippe between Auberive and Hentregiville, occupying the intervening villages of Dontrien, Betheniville and Pont-Faverger, making a line of battle nearly five leagues long.
It seemed as if the cheerless waste would never end; all that they met was a flock of very lean sheep, guarded by a big black dog. It was about four o'clock when at last the 106th halted for the night at Dontrien, a small village on the banks of the Suippe.
It was just striking six from the steeple of the little church of Dontrien when Loubet shouted: "Come to supper!" The squad lost no time in seating themselves in a circle. At the very last moment Loubet had succeeded in getting some vegetables from a peasant who lived hard by.
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