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which were in tlie little town of (releconrt and later in 

 Azerailles. 



From the time we left here until we reached Germany 

 I had no time to give to birds, as we were made shock 

 troops and were kept pretty busy until the armistice. July 

 1 to 23 saw us in the Champagne, near Suippes ; -July 28 to 

 August 16 at Chateau Thierry; September 7 to 27 at St. 

 Mihiel; and until November 11 in the Argonue. There then 

 followed a month of hiking until we settled in Germany, 

 about twelve miles from the Rhine, in the Coblenz area. 



My regiment was in two towns in Germany; the first, 

 for two and a half months, was Dernau, situated on the 

 Ahr River, with the P^iffel Mountains on the right and a 

 high plateau rising sharply on the left. I spent much of my 

 time in the mountains, where there were many pines and 

 the birds were rather plentiful. The second town, where 

 we spent our last month, was Eckendorf, which was on 

 the plateau to the left of Dernau, and about six miles dis- 

 tant. There were but few woods here, the town being in 

 the middle of a broad plain. 



Besides the birds, I found the game in Germany very 

 interesting. In the fields around Eckendorf the rabbits 

 were very plentiful, especially just before sundown. I have 

 counted as many as sixty in a short walk across the fields. 

 In the mountains, deer and wild pigs were fairly common. 

 I have seen deer (they were a small form of white tail) a 

 number of times, but could never hit one with my auto- 

 matic. I was also hunting wild pigs with a forester, whom 

 I met, but without results. He, however, had better luck, 

 for he shot ten in one week. One evening, at his house, I 

 tasted the meat of one he had shot that morning and found 

 it quite spicy and gamey, but not too strong to be un- 

 pleasant. 



I only met two taxidermists while abroad. One was a 

 barber in St. Nazaire, but as I had just landed, I had not 

 mastered French well enough to talk with him very much. 

 The other was in Germany ; he was a very good taxider- 



