A nation at bay, what an American woman saw and did in suffering Serbia . C HELLS ON EARTH 61 the poor ones struggled on. Mothers with theirlittle ones around them; blinded soldiers led bythe gentle hands of young girls, and carrying intheir arms sick or half-frozen children; old men,tottering, stumbling, falling at last to rise nomore; strong and handsome women, haggardnow with bitter fear, their danger greater thanany other. A child would moan in its mothers arras, andits little life would flicker out. The mother,kneeling beside the tiny form, would take off hergreat homespun apron that she
A nation at bay, what an American woman saw and did in suffering Serbia . C HELLS ON EARTH 61 the poor ones struggled on. Mothers with theirlittle ones around them; blinded soldiers led bythe gentle hands of young girls, and carrying intheir arms sick or half-frozen children; old men,tottering, stumbling, falling at last to rise nomore; strong and handsome women, haggardnow with bitter fear, their danger greater thanany other. A child would moan in its mothers arras, andits little life would flicker out. The mother,kneeling beside the tiny form, would take off hergreat homespun apron that she might leave theloved body decently covered. But the other suf-fering children, crying at her side, needed themeagre warmth of the ragged garment, so theheartbroken mother with a piteous prayer mustgather her little brood about her and, leaving herbaby uncovered, go on again. One by one the children would fall by the road-side, prey to every cruel chance of misery, untilat last the poor mother, more able to stand hard-ship than the little ones, would be left
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