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The Boy Allies On the Firing Line
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Title: The Boy Allies On the Firing Line
Author: Clair Wallace Hayes
Release Date: July 9, 2004 [EBook #12870]
Language: English
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The Boy Allies On The Firing Line
OR
Twelve Days Battle Along the Marne
By CLAIR W. HAYES
AUTHOR OF "The Boy Allies at Liège" "The Boy Allies With the Cossacks" "The Boy Allies In the Trenches"
1915
CHAPTER I.
TERRIBLE ODDS.
"Feels pretty good to be back in harness, doesn't it, Hal?" asked Chester, as, accompanied by a small body of men, they rode slowly along.
"Great!" replied his friend enthusiastically. "And it looks as if we were to see action soon."
"Yes, it does look that way."
The little body of British troopers, only forty-eight of them all told, with Hal Paine and Chester Crawford as their guides, were reconnoitering ten miles in advance of the main army along the river Marne in the great war between Germany and the allied armies. For several hours they had been riding slowly without encountering the enemy, when, suddenly, as the little squad topped a small hill and the two boys gained an unobstruct
The Boy Allies On the Firing Line
by Clair Wallace Hayes