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Show . '. SHE KNEW THE GREAT STORY Girl Lacked Gift of Narrative, but Was Able to Tell All About Chateau Thierry. As we crawled up a railroad track In the vicinity of Chateau Thierry (this was in October) a railroad track which seemed the only new and complete object in sight the Y. M. C. A. girl, who .had been sitting in the corner of the compartment resisting all advances at conversation, volunteered volun-teered n remark. "Our division took it," she said. It turned out that she hao. gone in with her canteen just behind the division, divi-sion, during that fight wherein America Amer-ica made good. She lacked the narrative narra-tive talent, that girl, but she came out - at intervals with flashes like' this: "When our boys came up the stragglers strag-glers said to them : 'You can't stay in there!' And our boys said: 'We'll not only stay there, but we're going forward.' When the stragglers saw that, they formed, too, and went back with them." Or this, as we drew into sight of a. road bordered by blackened ruins: "There's where our divisions came Into sight, singing, 'The Yanks Are Coming.' Com-ing.' " Will Irwin in the Saturday Evening Post. |