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Updated: May 3, 2025
In such a case amusements must for a time be thrown aside, till all the lands have been again re-ploughed. Of course we are never wholly idle.
This first cleaning of the fields or, as it is called, Oustennie being finished, the lands are all again re-ploughed, re-harrowed, and then once more re-cleaned by the coolies, till not a weed or spot of dirt remains; and till the whole surface is uniformly soft, friable, moist, and clean.
There were so many one stopped counting them. Added to their loss were two shattered German airships. One I saw twenty-six kilometres outside of Meaux and one at Bouneville. As they fell they had buried their motors deep in the soft earth and their wings were twisted wrecks of silk and steel. All the fields through which the army passed had become waste land. Shells had re-ploughed them.
The poor strip of flat strath, ploughed and re-ploughed again in the short summer days, would yield no more; or wet harvests spoiled the crops, or heavy snows starved the cattle.
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