A Padre in France
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George A. Birmingham. A Padre in France
A Padre in France
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
THE UTTERMOST PART
CHAPTER II
GETTING THERE
CHAPTER III
A JOURNEY IN THE WAR ZONE
CHAPTER IV
SETTLING DOWN
CHAPTER V
KHAKI
CHAPTER VI
LEISURE HOURS
CHAPTER VII
COMING AND GOING
CHAPTER VIII
WOODBINE HUT
CHAPTER IX
Y.S.C
CHAPTER X
THE DAILY ROUND
CHAPTER XI
ANOTHER JOURNEY
CHAPTER XII
MADAME
CHAPTER XIII
“THE CON. CAMP”
CHAPTER XIV
A BACKWATER
CHAPTER XV
MY THIRD CAMP
CHAPTER XVI
LEAVE
CHAPTER XVII
A HOLIDAY
CHAPTER XVIII
PADRES
CHAPTER XIX
CITIZEN SOLDIERS
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George A. Birmingham
Published by Good Press, 2019
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M. and I struggled into a train and immediately became possessed by the idea that it was going the wrong way, carrying us to the front instead of the remote base to which we were bound. I do not remember that we were in any way vexed. We had a good store of provisions, thanks to my foresight and determination. We were in a fairly comfortable carriage. We were quite ready to make the best of things wherever the train took us.
A fellow-traveller, a young officer, offered us comfort and advice. He had a theory that trains in France run round and round in circles, like the London Underground. The traveller has nothing to do but sit still in order to reach any station in the war area; would in the end get back to the station from which he started, if he sat still long enough. M. refused to believe this. He insisted on making inquiries whenever the train stopped, and it stopped every ten minutes. His efforts did not help us much. The porters and station masters whom he hailed did not understand his French, and he could make nothing of their English. The first real light on our journey came to us in an odd way. At one station our compartment was suddenly boarded by three cheerful young women dressed in long overalls, and wearing no hats.
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