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In Bethune Under all ruins is history, as every tourist knows. IN BETHUNE UNDER ALL RUINS IS HISTORY AS EVERY TOURIST KNOWS
his name, so secluded it was in that awful garden of Mars; a tiny valley running into the wood of Bécourt. A few yards, higher up and all was desolation, a little further along a lonely road and you saw Albert mourning over irreparable vistas of ruin and wasted fields; but the little valley ran into the wood of Bécourt and sheltered there, and there you saw scarcely any signs of war. It might almost have been an English valley, by the side of an English wood. The soil was the same brown clay that you see in the south Of England above the downs and the chalk; the wood was a hazel wood, such as grow in England, thinned a good deal, as English hazels are, but with several tall trees still growing; and plants were there and late flowers, such as grow in Surrey and Kent. And at the end of the valley, just in the shadow of that familiar homely wood, a hundred British officers rest for ever. As the world is today perhaps that obscure spot, as fittingly as any, might be named the Happy Valley.  PART ELEVEN OF UNHAPPY FAR OFF THINGS THIS IS A LIBER VOX RECORDING ALL LIBER VOX ACCORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER PLEASE VISIT LIEBRAVOX DOT ORG RECORDING BY BETTY B UNHAPPY FAR OFF THINGS BY LORD DUNSTANY PART ELEVEN
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