At Outersteene, however, we were received with touching manifestations of confidence and enthusiasm; an old tottering and broken-down teacher had drawn up before the school a score of young lads of seven to ten years old, who watched us passing and sang the Marseillaise with all their lungs, while the old man beat the time.
The village had been evacuated only three days ago, and it was from the thresholds of its houses, partly fallen in and still smoking, that this song rose, a sincere and spontaneous outburst.
(Lieut. Mallet tells "How We Crossed the German Lines"; "The Charge of Gilocourt"; "The Escape in the Forest of Compiegne"; "The Two Glorious Days at Staden"; "The Funeral of Lord Roberts"; "The Attack at Loos.")
FOOTNOTE
[1] All numerals throughout this volume relate to the stories herein told—not to chapters in the original sources.
"TO RUHLEBEN—AND BACK"—LIFE IN A GERMAN PRISON
Where the British Civilian Prisoners Are Held in Detention Camp
Told by Geoffrey Pyke, an English Prisoner