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leaning over the fence. I can't think what order that would be, but there is a place in there where there's an order, and they were up against the fence, leaning over the fence, to see. It was an act of reverence and friendship.

When we got to Hyde Park--there is a little, station there, you know, and a little station clearing all around-- they asked us all to stay on the train until the body had been put on the gun-carriage, and until Mrs. Roosevelt and others had gotten into their cars. Then we all got out and our cars were there--not our cars, but there were cars prepared for us.

We drove up the hill. Now, the approach to the Hyde Park house from the railroad station is very different from the approach through the town and through the highway. You can come up a country road that leads from the station into the main part of the village, but there is also, a way you can go part way up this country road and reach a point where you can turn off, into a wood road--a very rough wood read--that goes right up through the woods into the Roosevelt place. It's a part of the Roosevelt place, but there's just a gate there.

Well, that gate was open, and the gun-carriage and the cars went up through the woods. I remember thinking, “My goodness, I'm afraid we'll get stuck.”





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