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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-21 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 7
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terday. I envied Arthur. If I had had half a chance I should have gone up to join him in keeping tab on the course of the fighting. But I had to stand by back here where we couldn't even hear the guns. Along in the afternoon Lieutenant Parks and I went out for our hike. We must have covered ten or twelve miles. Three or four were in the dense woods where we followed a path without encountering sign of human life except in a clearing where two grizzled old wood-cutters were binding twigs into bundles. The mossy turf was vivid with wild-flowers. I'll put in this letter a bit of gold that strayed into my notebook. The walk through the woods was delightful. I hadn't known before how much I wanted to lose myself in a forest. Later - as we were nearing town, we
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terday. I envied Arthur. If I had had half a chance I should have gone up to join him in keeping tab on the course of the fighting. But I had to stand by back here where we couldn't even hear the guns. Along in the afternoon Lieutenant Parks and I went out for our hike. We must have covered ten or twelve miles. Three or four were in the dense woods where we followed a path without encountering sign of human life except in a clearing where two grizzled old wood-cutters were binding twigs into bundles. The mossy turf was vivid with wild-flowers. I'll put in this letter a bit of gold that strayed into my notebook. The walk through the woods was delightful. I hadn't known before how much I wanted to lose myself in a forest. Later - as we were nearing town, we
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