TO
ALL THE GIRLS I MET
IN FARM, FIELD AND FOREST
WISHING THEM THE BEST OF LUCK,
AND LIFE, AND LOVE
FROM BERTA RUCK
Wales, 1918
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I ["Man Made the Town"]
II [Two Voices Call]
III [The Toss-Up]
IV [The First Night in Camp]
V [The First Job]
VI [The Farmhouse Meal]
VII [After-Effects]
VIII [The Plunge]
IX [Our Mess-Mates]
X [The Milking-Lesson]
XI [The Land-Girls' Letter-Bag]
XII [We "Get Used to It"]
XIII [An Invitation]
XIV [The Hen-Wife]
XV [Mostly Conversation]
XVI [Curious Conduct of the Man-Hater]
XVII [Land-Girls go Shopping]
XVIII [The Night of the Concert]
XIX [The Surprise Turn]
XX [Land Army Tests]
XXI [The Man-Hater Discusses Men]
XXII [Hay-Harvest]
XXIII [Colonel Fielding Discusses "Enjoyment"]
XXIV [Storm]
XXV [After the Rain]
XXVI [Colonel Fielding Discusses "Love and the Like"]
XXVII [A Kitchen Courtship]
XXVIII [The Onlooker]
XXIX [Love—After the Interval]
XXX [Colonel Fielding Discusses "The Mystery-Girl"]
XXXI [A Few Facts about Richard Wynn]
XXXII [Butter-Making—With Accompaniment]
XXXIII ["Our" Germans]
XXXIV [Harvest, Nineteen-Eighteen]
XXXV ["Fire, Fire!"]
XXXVI [The Harvest-Moon]
[Postscript—The Victory-Dance]
ILLUSTRATIONS
[England must be fed] ... Frontispiece
["I was going to ask you to join up for the Land Army"]
[We agreed that we were simply loving the life and the people, the work and the play]
[Still leaning on the gate, Captain Holiday said: "I'm glad the country won that toss"]