TO
MY WIFE
[CONTENTS]
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | A Flight to the Firing Line | [1] |
| II. | How the Front Is Visited | [16] |
| III. | In the French Trenches | [41] |
| IV. | A Typical Day's Tour | [59] |
| V. | A Grenade-throwing School | [88] |
| VI. | With the Belgian Batteries | [99] |
| VII. | In the Flemish Trenches | [120] |
| VIII. | Lessons | [140] |
[ILLUSTRATIONS]
| "A Few Seconds Later the Two Great Propellers Began to Flash Round" | [Frontispiece] | |
| "Below Us Stretched an Unbroken White Ocean of These Lower Clouds" | Facing p. | [6] |
| "There Were Autos with ... Razor‑edged Knife‑blades Attached" | " | [32] |
| Captain d'A—— and the Author | " | [32] |
| "There Mass Is Still Held Every Sunday for the Benefit of the Sixteen Inhabitants Who Still Persisted in Staying in the Village" | " | [48] |
| The Author in a Front Trench near Rheims | " | [52] |
| "We were Completely Absorbed in Watching the Soft Little Clouds Playfully Dancing Along Ahead of the Lazily Drifting Aeroplane" | " | [68] |
| "As We Hiked Along at the General's Favorite Pace" | " | [72] |
| "A Heavy Field-piece Standing on Treadled Wheels" | " | [72] |
| Part of the Enormous Encampment of Supply‑wagons, which Carry the Complete Supplies for Three Full Days for One Army Corps | " | [84] |
| "Colonel D——, Commanding the Artillery of the Sector" | " | [104] |
| The Author in One of the Biggest Shell‑pits, which were Ten Feet Deep and Twenty Feet in Diameter | " | [104] |
| Commandant L—— in the Nickel‑steel Skull-cap which He Wore Inside His Khaki Cap | " | [120] |
| "The Chauffeur Reached the Open Place by the Church" | " | [126] |
| On the Shattered Church Hung this Crucifix Intact though Surrounded by Shrapnel Holes | " | [126] |
| Under Heavy Fire in a Belgian Communicating‑trench | " | [136] |