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The boat was crowded. Khaki, everywhere khaki; lifebelts, rain and storm, everything soaked. Destroyers, churning through the waves, played strange games all round us. Some old-time Tommies, taking everything for granted, smoked and laughed and told funny stories. Others had the look of dumb animals in pain, going to what they knew only too well. The new hands for France asked many questions, pretended to laugh, pretended not to care, but for the most part were in terror of the unknown. | Onlooker in France 1917-1919 by William Orpen 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI Onlooker in France 1917-1919 by William Orpen Project Gutenberg s An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 by William Orpen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 Author William Orpen Release Date December 29 2006 EBook 20215 Onlooker in France 1917-1919 by William Orpen 2 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ONLOOKER IN FRANCE 1917-1919 Produced by Geetu Melwani Christine P. Travers Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive Canadian Libraries Transcriber s note --The original page references for the list of illustrations was facing page therefore they have been changed in this text to match the page numbers in this file. AN ONLOOKER IN FRANCE Illustration I. Field-Marshal Earl Haig of Bemersyde . . etc. AN ONLOOKER IN FRANCE 1917-1919 BY SIR WILLIAM ORPEN . . LONDON WILLIAMS AND NORGATE 1921 Pictures and Text Copyright 1921 by Sir William Orpen . . Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay Sons Limited Paris Garden Stamford St. . 1 and Bungay Suffolk. PREFACE p. v This book must not be considered as a serious work on life in France behind the lines it is merely an attempt to record some certain little incidents that occurred in my own life there. The only thought I wish to convey is my sincere thanks for the wonderful opportunity that was given me to look on and see the fighting man and to learn to revere and