"And they thought we wouldn't fight." (1918) (14760327221)

Identifier: andtheythoughtwe00gib (find matches)
Title: "And they thought we wouldn't fight."
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Gibbons, Floyd Phillips, 1887-1939
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Doran
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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ing stoves of themess shacks, where the steaming coffee took the chill outof the cold morning stomachs. Later the sun broke bright and clear. It glistened onthe snow-clad furrows of the rolling hills, in which, forcenturies, the village of Saint Thiebault has drowsedmore or less happily beside its ancient canal and in theshadow of the steeple of the church of the good SaintThiebault. Now a thousand men or more, brown-clad and metal-helmeted, know the huts and stables of Saint Thiebaultas their billets, and the seventy little boys and girls of theparish know those same thousand men as their newbig brothers^—les bons Americains. The real daddies and big brothers and uncles of thoseseventy youngsters have been away from Saint Thie-bault for a long time now—yes, this is the fourth Christ-mas that the urgent business in northern France has keptthem from home. They may never return but that is un-known to the seventy young hopefuls. There was great activity in the colonels quarters dur-
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aiARIKES MARCHING DOWN THE AVENUE PRESIDENT WILSONON THE FOURTH OF JULY IN PARIS