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James Norman Hall. High Adventure
High Adventure
Table of Contents
I. The Franco-American Corps
II. Penguins
III. By the Route of the Air
IV. At G. D. E
V. Our First Patrol
VI. A Balloon Attack
VII. Brought Down
VIII. One Hundred Hours
IX. “Lonely as a Cloud”
X. “Mais Oui, Mon Vieux!”
XI. The Camouflaged Cows
XII. Cafard
From a Letter Received in Boston, October 1, 1918
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James Norman Hall
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The Annamites, from Indo-China, who are quartered at the camp for guard and fatigue duty, came back with him about twenty strong, and we started in a long procession to the barracks. Later, we took a vindictive pleasure in witnessing the beluggaged arrival of other Americans, for in nine cases out of ten they came as absurdly over-equipped as did we.
Our barracks, one of many built on the same pattern, was a long, low wooden building, weather-stained without and whitewashed within. It had accommodation for about forty beds. One end of the room was very manifestly American. There was a phonograph on the table, baseball equipment piled in one corner, and the walls were covered with cartoons and pictures clipped from American periodicals. The other end was as evidently French, in the frugality and the neatness of its furnishings. The American end of the room looked more homelike, but the French end more military. Near the center, where the two nations joined, there was a very harmonious blending of these characteristics.
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