He had never been in Europe before, and formed a high opinion of the farming.

He said he reckoned that such land would carry four sheep a morgen.

We were thick in talk when we reached the frontier station and jolted over a canal bridge into Germany.
I had expected a big barricade with barbed wire and entrenchments.

But there was nothing to see on the German side but half a dozen sentries in the field-grey I had hunted at Loos.

An under-officer, with the black-and-gold button of the Landsturm, hoicked us out of the train, and we were all shepherded into a big bare waiting-room where a large stove burned.