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The Boy Allies in the Trenches
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Title: The Boy Allies in the Trenches Midst Shot and Shell Along the Aisne
Author: Clair Wallace Hayes
Release Date: June 9, 2004 [EBook #12571]
Language: English
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The Boy Allies In The Trenches
OR
Midst Shot and Shell along the Aisne
By CLAIR W. HAYES
AUTHOR OF "The Boy Allies At Liège" "The Boy Allies On the Firing Line" "The Boy Allies With the Cossacks"
1915
CHAPTER I.
WITH THE ARMY.
"Well! Well! Well! If it isn't Lieutenant Paine and Lieutenant Crawford!"
The speaker, none other than Field Marshal Sir John French, commander-in-chief of the British forces sent to help France hurl back the legions of the German invader, was greatly surprised by the appearance of the two lads before him.
"I thought surely you had been killed," continued General French.
"We are not to be killed so easily, sir," replied Hal Paine.
"And where have you been?" demanded the General.
"In Russia, sir," replied Chester Crawford, "where we were attached to a Cossack regiment, and where we saw considerable fighting."
General French uttered an exclamati