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NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE
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WITH THE DOUGHBOY IN FRANCE
A FEW CHAPTERS OF AN AMERICAN EFFORT
BY
EDWARD HUNGERFORD
Author of The Modern Railroad, The Personality of American Cities, etc., etc.
NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1920
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1920, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1920.
TO THE CROIX ROUGE AMÉRICAINE
The girl in the steel-gray uniform with the crimson crosses, who toiled and endured and danced and laughed and lived, that the heart and soul of the boy in khaki might remain untroubled, this book is affectionately inscribed
PREFACE
Six months ago I finished writing the chapters of thisbook. At that time the American Red Cross still had aconsiderable force in Paris—throughout France forthat matter. It was still functioning and, after its fashion,functioning extremely well. In the language of theFrench it "marched." To-day its marching days in theland of the lilies are nearly over. The personnel havenearly all returned home; the few th