Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-15
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I could not have picked more at
tractive audience They were just
like two kids and listened to my
tales of fights in the air and tumbles
on the ground like any pair of b.
year-olds for they were just about
as blissfully ignorant as to what
made an airplane stay up.
I stayed with these kind people
some ten days, recovering my
strength, and also waiting for the
trains to start back to Paris, for |
was not going to walk back II l
could help it. But the Boche had
blown up all the bridges on the rail-
road and no trains could get
through.
The English army of occupation
was coming our way; and as they
came forward they fixed the rail-
roads. Therefore. L waited for them
to get to me.
Why start walking to Paris when
/ was so comfortable in the city OF
Namur.
While I waited I continued to eat
heartily and one day 1 felt so good
1 wanted\to celebrate, so l explained
to my pretty hostess how 1 enjoyed
writing and would she give me some
paper and ink. Any old paper would
do, but she would not have 1T that
way but insisted on giving me the
finest paper she .had-a whole bale
of it. Then she fixed me up desk
and chair near the fire and told me
to go to it. Even you Mother could
not have been more thouShtful or
felt more pleased at seeing now
happy it made me to once more nave
pen in hand. 1 sure had lot to
write about
Quite an Affair
On Sunday I was invited to take
dinner with her mother and L ac-
cepted with pleasure. This was
quite an affair for her two brothers
were there also and they kept things
lively. And say, we sure had some
eats too, served with all the style
and silver. After dinner we ad-
journed to the den of one of the
brothers.
This brother was affected with
asthma and therefore could not heip
fight the Boche, but he certainly
had no love for them, Talk about
the souvenir bug. That man sure
had it bad; never had 1 seen more
complete collection of Boche junk.
why ne nau every SlSlS u spa
helmet in the Bache army, besides
pieces of shrapnel, parts of bombs
that had blown four Belgians to
pieces near his home, swords, bayo-
nets, pistols, and even heavy calibre
shells-loaded.
The Boche Plight
From this man 1 learned now
hard up the Boche government had
metal was needed in the making of
ammunition and the supply became
so scarce that the Boche requisition-
ed all the brass and copper in Bel
gium, No piece was too small to be
overlooked. The Belgians got wind
of this happily before the Boone
came round to get it and lost no time
in hiding all they had. While this
Belgian was telling me this, he was
sitting on heavy, antique desk. On
the front of this desk were NUM-
ber of small lion heads made of wood
with ring in their mouth. Reach
ing down with his knife the Belgian
scraped the brown paint off the ring
and there was revealed a ring or
heavy. solid brass. He had gotten
away with it all because he painted
the ring the same color of the wood
Then he proceeded to point out dlt-
ferent hiding places for articles
made of this metal scattered around
the room, but so well were they
made that L could not notice break
in the paper where the door should
have heen. He had other hiding
places in the yard where he mad
buried many things. This was a
very small yard. but despite this
fact he had about eight dlHereht
caches of brass buried there.
one day ga Boche, while walklng
around in this yard. noticed a tur-
tie crawling along on his SLOW
clumsy way, and seemed to be much
interested in watching friend turtle
nulling his head backward, and Tor
ward as he crawled along. tlnally
the Boche instincts came to the sur
face. and raising his gun on hlgh
he brought it down with fixed bayo-
NET on the unsuspecting turtles
head. His aim was bad though Tor
he missed. the bayonet sticking IN
the ground some 10 inches from the
force of the blow. No, I'm not try
inm to point out how much more
wanton cruelty of the Boche' Ihe
noint I want to make is that had tne
Roche drove his bayonet in the
ground just six inches tartner
ehead. It would have stuck in hid
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