Category: Humour

The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me

By rights Henry, being the hero of this story, should be introduced in the first line. But really there isn't so much to say about Henry--Henry J. Allen for short, as we say in Kansas--Henry J. Allen, editor and owner of the Wichita Beacon. And to make the dramatis personae co...

Chapters

4. Chapter 4

This chapter will contain the story of our visit to General Pershing and the American troops. But before we came to that part of France which holds our men we passed through div...

5. Chapter 5

At the close of one fair autumn day our car developed tire trouble, in a village "Somewhere in France," not far from the headquarters of the American Army. There are four excell...

2. Chapter 2

Bordeaux is the "Somewhere in France" from which cablegrams from passengers on the French liners usually are sent. This will be no news to the Germans, nor to Americans who read...

6. Chapter 6

As the autumn deepened we found our Red Cross work ending. This work had taken Henry and me from our quiet country newspaper offices in Kansas and had suddenly plunged us into t...

3. Chapter 3

There is something, though Heaven knows not much, to be said for war as war. And the little to be said is said when one declares that it refreshes life by taking us out of our r...

8. Chapter 8

Finally our talk left the war and its meaning, and we fell to wondering how the Young Doctor's hand was coming on, and we thought of the Eager Soul, too, standing so wistfully b...

1. Chapter 1

By rights Henry, being the hero of this story, should be introduced in the first line. But really there isn't so much to say about Henry--Henry J. Allen for short, as we say in...

7. Chapter 7

It is curious how the human heart throws out homeseeking tendrils. As we crossed the Italian frontier and came back into France, keen longing for the Ritz--even the Ritz with it...

9. Chapter 9

We found when we were leaving England another of those curious contrasts between the nations of the earth that one meets in a long journey. Coming into Bordeaux we were convoyed...