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We were just warm enough in the big château. I had wanted for a long time to make a Christmas Tree in our lonely little village of St. Quentin, near Louvry, our farm, but I didn't get much support from my French friends and relations. W. was decidedly against it.
Wednesday we made a fine expedition to the woods the whole party, the donkey-cart, and one of the keepers to choose the Tree a most important performance, as we wanted the real pyramid "sapin," tapering off to a fine point at the top. They were principally from Louvry and St. Quentin, and were staggering along, carrying quite heavy bundles on their poor old bent backs.
All our little village of Louvry, near our farm, had taken itself off to the woods. They were quite safe there, as the Prussians never came into the woods on account of the sharpshooters. W. said their camp was comfortable enough they had all their household utensils, beds, blankets, donkeys, and goats, and could make fires in the clearing in the middle of the woods.
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