This is a wood : proud acacias stiff like swedish matches and which would go up in flames at the first spark, oak-trees, undergrowth, elm-trees where sometimes carrier pigeons sit down who, in less peaceful times, could pay a lot if handed to the authorities from across the Rhine launched as they were from aeroplanes by enemy agents (two thousand francs with messages, a thousand two hundred francs with incomplete accessories, seven hundred francs without messages) for there are no small profits, opined the colonel Bravadida, a pensioner of the locality and very much Nouvelle France.
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