. The disabled soldier. ALLIES ON THE CONTINENT 165 mastered by men with lesser arm injuries. A carpenterwith a leg amputated can do bench work but cannotmount scaffoldings. Since carpentry is, however, alwaysan arduous trade and beyond the strength of manywounded men, it has been replaced in many schools bycabinet-making. Favorite courses with men who wish to practise atrade in the city are those which make them mechanicsand machinists. Peasants with a mechanical turn haveopportunities to become farm mechanics, or men quali-fied to operate and repair tractors and other agriculturalmachinery.
. The disabled soldier. ALLIES ON THE CONTINENT 165 mastered by men with lesser arm injuries. A carpenterwith a leg amputated can do bench work but cannotmount scaffoldings. Since carpentry is, however, alwaysan arduous trade and beyond the strength of manywounded men, it has been replaced in many schools bycabinet-making. Favorite courses with men who wish to practise atrade in the city are those which make them mechanicsand machinists. Peasants with a mechanical turn haveopportunities to become farm mechanics, or men quali-fied to operate and repair tractors and other agriculturalmachinery. In the old days there would have been littleenough demand in the French countryside for skill ofthis sort, but the war has changed all things, even theunchanging methods of the French farmer, and now inan effort to replace the labor of the peasant lads whohave died on the battle line, an increasing number oftractors are being imported from America and put towork upon the fallow fields. The schools teach men notonly to o
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