Our Army at the Front

From a painting by F. C. Yohn.
AMERICA IN THE WAR
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BY HEYWOOD BROUN FORMERLY CORRESPONDENT FOR THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE WITH THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1922
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS —— Printed in the United States of America

A SHIP warped into an English port. Along her decks were lines of soldiers, of high and low degree, all in khaki. From the shore end of her gang-plank other lines of soldiers spread out like fan-sticks, some in khaki, some in the two blues of land and sea fighters. Decorating the fan-sticks were the scarlet and gold of staff-officers, the blue and gold of naval officers, the yellow and gold of land officers, and the black of a few distinguished civilians.
At the end of one shore-line of khaki one rigid private stood out from the rest, holding for dear life to a massive white goat. The goat was the most celebrated mascot in the British Army, and this was an affair of priceless consequence, but that was no sign the goat intended to behave himself, and the private was responsible.