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Show HERE YOU HAVE THE POILU Brief Definition of Man to Whom Many Will Claim the World . Owes Its Salvation, An humble man who, one July afternoon after-noon in ISJli, left at two hours' notice Ills Parisian shop or workshop, or his ripe wheat fields or his ripening vines, for a military depot he had never liked, lik-ed, and had managed to tolerate only because soldiering and all tilings soldierly sol-dierly ore likable to the Frenchman and take on halo In Ids imagination, was packed to the Helgian frontier; made the acquaintance of danger under un-der all its forms; fought, hungered hungered and thirsted for days; knew the trenches when they were in their crudest novelty and worse than the badger's hole; got wounded and lay for hours, sometimes days, where he had fallen, or crawled miles to a hurried surgeon and to the torturing goods trucks pompously labeled sanitary san-itary trains; got well and went back to the depot, and then back to the front and to fighting or being shelled; and so on during the four years, with the ever disappointing certainty that "next winter must be the last," or that Imminent coining in of this or that nation must bring the end. |