Friends of France; . THE INSPECTORS LETTER BOX. Weeks of Quiet With the change of conductors N° 170 has fallenupon evil times. She has carried meat and bread forthe Section, and even coal; she has run through milesof snowstorm to bring relief to those who were suffer-ing from toothache, scarlatina, or mumps; and shehas patiently borne permissionnaires from hospital torailroad station; but the shriek of shot and shell hasbecome entirely unfamiliar to her ears. At first it wasthe fault of the conductor, who had never conductedbefore reaching Bordeaux, and only some half-dozentimes between leavin
Friends of France; . THE INSPECTORS LETTER BOX. Weeks of Quiet With the change of conductors N° 170 has fallenupon evil times. She has carried meat and bread forthe Section, and even coal; she has run through milesof snowstorm to bring relief to those who were suffer-ing from toothache, scarlatina, or mumps; and shehas patiently borne permissionnaires from hospital torailroad station; but the shriek of shot and shell hasbecome entirely unfamiliar to her ears. At first it wasthe fault of the conductor, who had never conductedbefore reaching Bordeaux, and only some half-dozentimes between leaving Bordeaux and arriving inAlsace. He was not adjudged capable of conductingup any mountain in general nor up the slopes adjoin-ing Hartmannsweilerkopf in particular. He went uponce or twice without 170, to inspect and experience,but it is an experience of which a little goes a long 197 FRIENDS OF FRANCE way when not prompted by duty. Afterward it wasthe fault of those who sit in the seats of the mighty,and still is, and apparently will remain
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