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8.
a continuous park, and everything
is so clean and neat and green and
fresh. I thought of the poets many a
time, especially Wordsworth; with his
nature poems. I was also much
impressed with the crops. They grow
crops [underlined] here. Stooks of grain nearly on
top of one another. Wheat, they are
just cutting and also oats. Always
green clover in the stubble and before
the grain is drawn in the ground is
green. The root crops and gardens
beat anything I have ever seen, and
every spare patch of ground is growing
something. They often get three crops of
hay in one year. Many of the
farm buildings are ancient and just
as you have read in descriptions. Red
brick prevails in all dwellings. You
very seldom see a frame house.

I might also mention the reception
we received here. Do they cheer
Canadian soldiers! Everybody
turns out, - and that means Old
men and physically unfit men, &
women & girls & children. Everybody