. Vive la France! . f wars fought in landsof which most people have never so much asheard; Spahis from Morocco and the Sahara,mounted on horses as wiry and hardy as them-selves; Zouaves in jaunty fezzes and braidedjackets and enormous trousers; sailors fromthe fleet, brought to handle the big naval guns,swaggering along with the roll of the sea intheir gait; cuirassiers, their steel breastplatesand horse-tailed helmets making them lookastonishingly Hke Roman horsemen; dragoonsso picturesque that they seemed to be pos-ing for a Detaille or a Meissonier; field-bat-teries, pale blue Hke everythin
. Vive la France! . f wars fought in landsof which most people have never so much asheard; Spahis from Morocco and the Sahara,mounted on horses as wiry and hardy as them-selves; Zouaves in jaunty fezzes and braidedjackets and enormous trousers; sailors fromthe fleet, brought to handle the big naval guns,swaggering along with the roll of the sea intheir gait; cuirassiers, their steel breastplatesand horse-tailed helmets making them lookastonishingly Hke Roman horsemen; dragoonsso picturesque that they seemed to be pos-ing for a Detaille or a Meissonier; field-bat-teries, pale blue Hke everything else in theFrench army, rocking and swaying over thestones; cyclists with their rifles slung acrosstheir backs hunter-fashion; leather-jacketeddespatch riders on panting motor-cycles; post-offices on wheels; telegraph offices on wheels;butcher-shops on wheels; bake-shops on wheels;garages on wheels; motor-busses, their topscovered with wire-netting and filled with car-rier-pigeons; giant search-lights; water-carts. Mr-t>usfs with wiri-iictiing tops filled with carrier pigeons.
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