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...hard-shelled fact in The Egg and I. Under Author MacDonald's whimsical (and sometimes Rabelaisian) threnody is the consciousness that Bob, tireless, devoted and efficient, was patiently pioneering a successful farm out of some fallen buildings and overgrown fields. He became one of the best chicken farmers in the countryside, and after two years was making so much profit that he could think of buying a bigger & better farm...
...Picardy. Serving its 244 villagers were a church, a mairie (town hall), a schoolhouse, a grocery, a carpenter's shop. One day last year the gale of battle ripped through Le Bosquel. Now only mounds of rubble and white stone doorsteps remain, lying in the tall grass like overgrown gravestones...
...Overgrown Bodyguard. The SS, which was first formed as a bodyguard for Hitler, is the core of Nazi fanaticism. Infiltrated throughout the Army (at least eight to every company) the Black Guards serve as spies against defeatism and disloyalty...
...Devonians found their cottages windowless, their churches damaged, their schools partly demolished by shellfire. The hedgerows were tattered and ragged, the lanes churned deep by tank tracks. Prim cottage gardens and the rich red fields were overgrown with weeds. Rabbits, multiplying by the thousands, played and fed with unchecked abandon, while the rooks wheeled and cawed overhead. Flies foraged in impudent battalions...
Complete with bevies of poorly rehearsed dancing maids, Wagnorian men-at-arms, and overgrown temple ruins, "Cobra Women" lacked none of the usual touches which characterize this sort of fare...