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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III BATTLE, ZEPPELINS, AND DEMOCRACY AS far from the front as London it became obvious that the nearer one approaches this war the nearer one visualises a vivid growth of democracy. A number of incidents, at the time apparently trivial, assume in retrospect a very real importance. I had been interested in the women's share. I had visited hospitals, watching the nurses at their merciful work. I had seen them, with an amusing diffidence, accomplishing men's tasks on trams and busses, even at the wheels of taxicabs. I knew of their labour in the munition factories. I was not prepared, however, for the surprise an English friend offered me when I went to visit him at his home in Surrey. He was a man of wealth and influence. I was curious when his daughter didn't appear for luncheon. I'll show you this afternoon what she's at, he promised mysteriously. He wouldn't say anything else. We set off in his automobile, stopping at a soldiers' convalescent home to pick up two wounded men, for Englishmen don't like to use automobiles without sharing their luxury with the sufferers. We halted at a neat farm in a hollow. A horsey-looking individual appeared. Where's the young lady? my host asked. The other took his pipe from his mouth and pointed with it in the direction of a distant rise. In summit field with Jerry and Jinny. How's she coming on? The horsey man puffed thoughtfully at his pipe. Better, he said grudgingly, than I calculated. She knows something about horses. We went on to the top of the rise. The soldiers, because of their wounds, couldn't leave the automobile, but my host led me down a lane to a broad field. A solitary, dusty figure crossed the field with long strides, calling cheerily to the raw- boned hors...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217969666 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217969666 |
| Weight | 0.46 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 134 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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