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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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++++ Don Hale Over There W. Crispin Sheppard The Penn Publishing
Company, 1918 World War, 1914-1918
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
CHAPTER III ON DUTY Early on the following morning, while the light
of the coming day was slowly spreading throughout the heavens and
by degrees bringing into view the landscape which for long hours
the deep shades of night had gathered to themselves, Don Hale and
Dunstan Farring- ton clambered into ambulance number eight and took
their places on the driver's seat. " Another forty-eight hours of
duty at the outpost ahead of us I " exclaimed Don. " Yes; and I
hope there won't be too much excitement I" said Dunstan. " I reckon
Chase Manning would agree to that sentiment." " There's a chap
whose acquaintance I am certainly going to cultivate," laughed the
aviator's son. The boy waved his hand to a couple of mechanicians
tinkering over an ambulance near by, threw in the clutch, and
number eight, the center of a very strong smell ofgasoline, slowly
trundled over the cobbled paving, passed beneath the arching
gateway and entered the street. Even at that early hour soldiers
billeted in the village were to be seen on every hand, and as the
Red Cross car swung along in an easterly direction over the wide
highway an occasional " Vive 1'Amerique 1" rose clearly above the
hum of smoothly-working pistons and rumble of wheels. Traveling at
a rapid rate of speed, the ambulance soon reached a bend, and just
beyond the road passed under the arch of an ancient porte, or
gateway, which marked the limits of the town. Very picturesque and
typical of other centuries it looked, looming up against the
slowly-lightening sky. Beyond the porte the ambulance passed a
succession of hills and meadows. Everywhere the earth had been
pitted, scarred and plowed up by high-explosive shells, and at
frequent intervals there were huge yawning craters, meters in depth
and width, some showing ...
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