The doctor's duffel bag . s are obliged to go miles for theirwater supply. They are attempting to put up habi-tations for the summer from wood which they aredragging from the trenches. d. In our next town we met a young lieutenant whosays his business it is to take the bombs from thelittle gardens; that it has been made a penalty forany one to till the ground until the bombs have beenremoved. In two days he has exploded one hundredand fifty. Although a Frenchman from the Southernpart of France he volunteers this statement, that tohim it is incomprehensible, the return of the peopleto this land
The doctor's duffel bag . s are obliged to go miles for theirwater supply. They are attempting to put up habi-tations for the summer from wood which they aredragging from the trenches. d. In our next town we met a young lieutenant whosays his business it is to take the bombs from thelittle gardens; that it has been made a penalty forany one to till the ground until the bombs have beenremoved. In two days he has exploded one hundredand fifty. Although a Frenchman from the Southernpart of France he volunteers this statement, that tohim it is incomprehensible, the return of the peopleto this land so utterly How much indemnity, think you, would berequired for these four towns alone? A patheticinstance was noted by us on our return home. An 73 old man, whose work was to repair the road-bedsso full of holes from the cannonading, moved alongthe road as he worked. A burst shell containingwater in which was a daffodil and three little prim-roses was by his side, the only thing of beauty inthat days 74 THE SON IT was just after the patient had been removedfrom the operating table, where she had had aleg amputated, that her history was told. She wasan old, old lady, living alone in a neighbouringtown, and the doctor had found her there helplessand miserable, suffering the tortures of a hopelessgangrene, needing and lacking nursing, cleanli-ness and food. She had been an influential womanin the town where she resided, but that was beforethe onslaught of the Germans, at the beginning ofthe war. d The evacuation of this old lady and her flightwith the rest of the towns people is told graphicallyin My Home in the Field of Honour, and duringthe hardships of that flight began the trouble in herleg which terminated in its She had but just been admitted to the hospi-tal when there came the following letter from herson who, it was learned, was a doctor in the Frencharmy. It was so tender in its tone and so touchingin its filial sympathy that the priv
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