The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1919-10-16

were not IfeilhG quite NJ Lhey hau
Just returned from an altitude record
Of 22,O00 feet. which they made n
thirty minutes less than the time IN
which they were supposed TO do i as
they wanted TO get down in time for
dinner. Nothing that an aviator does
surprises one!
There was no such thing as rest N
Chatillon. Camions marked capacity
3 tons" rumbled past all day ard all
night, and artillery like an endless
grey stream We stood at the open
windows, all the time we were in
doors. waving at, and calling TO the
boys as they passed whitened like
clowns by the dust On one camion,
the boys carried young fox in their
laps, carefully holding an umbrella
over its head to protect il from the
broiling min, in which they themselves
were sizzling: on another a kid laid
across the drivers knees, and another
company has a baby lion which they
take everywhere with them. We pick
ed up tired soldier one evening, to
give him a lift in the Ford, he was
walking to town near where we were
TO sing. He carried something wrap
ped up in his handkerchief, and was
so solicitous about il that we asked
him what it was: it was tiny mole,
which he said he was taking back TO
show the boys, for they hadn't seen
one in dong time, and he thought 1t
was so pretty. II wiggled free every
few moments, but we stopped the car
and caught it each time, quite as in
terested in il as the boy was,
The chateau in Chatilon, which the
"Y" had as AN Officers club was a
beautiful house and charmingly stu
ated. 1t banked on the main street,
and from the front one looked down
upon lovely sunken garden and the
Seine, for miles along the valley. The
drawing room was crowded with Of
ticers on the night on which we We're
to entertain there, and among the
most interested Of our audience were
the cobbler and his wife, with whom
we were living. They had dressed"
from three o'clock in the afternoon
until after dinner. They are the
sweetest old French couple imagin-
able, for after fifty years of married
life, they are just as devoted as they
were, probably, during their honey
moon days. Madam sits with him all
days as he cobbles, and each time she
came up to our room he came along
along too. He loved our shoes, they
could not have taken better care Of
us if we had been their own children,
and we shall always love them. The
audience was delightfully."- responsive
one, the doctor who cured Grace
walked back to our billet with her,
and a wounded Lieutenant held
Franks hand and told her, all the way
home, how lovely his wife was
All night long the ambulances dis
charged sick boys at the little hospital
next door, tonly think what that
means, for the doctors get no rest,
they have no women nurses, and
the ether gives out) cam
ions passed, loaded with boys going
to the front, with hardly minute 5
time between, and there was nothing
we could do to help,
The next morning was busy one,
as we had TO say bood-bye to all our
friends, the lady who lent US the vio-
lin, every one in the hospital, all the
mattresses in the hotel, and the dear
Pechons, our host and hostess, who
kissed up on both cheeks.
Every officer in the room stood as
General Edwards entered it with his (
staff, we all We're so glad to meet
again that We forgot to be formal,
extra places were laid at our table,
and we had regular celebration.
We motored for about thirty kilo-
metres, over billowing hills to Racey.
The entrance to the hotel was under
/ stone arch, over cobbled driveway
nto the courtyard, tpiled high with
lrmy supplies, including heap Of
'ubber boots almost up to the second
ioor), and in which an ambulance al
Ways stood. Soldiers were every
where, and all seemed 10 be shaving.
some had just finished their laundry
nd II was hanging on loose barn
oors, or on planks leaned against the
vail Ii isn't as easy TO do ones
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