From France, by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather

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Title: Fragments From France

Author: Captain Bruce Bairnsfather

Release Date: July 2, 2008 [EBook #25951]

Language: English

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By Bruce Bairnsfather

Bullets and Billets

Fragments from France

A Few Fragments from His Life

FRAGMENTS FROM FRANCE

CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER

AUTHOR OF "BULLETS AND BILLETS"

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G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1917

FOREWORD

By the Editor of "The Bystander."

[Illustration: W]HEN Tommy went out to the great war, he went smiling, and singing the latest ditty of the halls. The enemy scowled. War, said his professors of kultur and his hymnsters of hate, could never be waged in the Tipperary spirit, and the nation that sent to the front soldiers who sang and laughed must be the very decadent England they had all along denounced as unworthy of world-power.

I fear the enemy will be even more infuriated when he turns over the pages of this book. In it the spirit of the

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