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Well, dear Family, here I am at sea, and everything is fine. At noon on Saturday our tugs pulled us away from the dock ahead of the "Prinzes Juliana" which lay alongside. Great waving of handkerchiefs between the blue-hatted crowds of . girls on both ships. The harbor was misty and the sky line of New York was very beautiful and shadowy. As we steamed out we passed the "Baltic" coming in, laden with troops. The boys were wild with enthusiasm at returning home. Many had climbed way up the rigging and as we passed they all cheered and we cheered back, and handkerchiefs fluttered. | A Y Girl in France by Katherine Shortall 1 A Y Girl in France by Katherine Shortall The Project Gutenberg eBook A Y Girl in France by Katherine Shortall 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 A Y Girl in France by Katherine Shortall 2 Title A Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall Author Katherine Shortall Release Date April 29 2010 eBook 32177 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A Y GIRL IN FRANCE E-text prepared by Jeannie Howse and Friend and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team http from page images generously made available by Internet Archive American Libraries http details americana Note Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive American Libraries. See http details ygirlinfrance00shor ------------------------------------------------ Transcriber s Note Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For a complete list please see the end of this document. -------------------------------------------- A Y GIRL IN FRANCE Letters of Katherine Shortall Illustration Boston Richard G. Badger The Gorham Press Copyright 1919 by Richard G. Badger All Rights Reserved Made in the United States of America The Gorham Press Boston . At the solicitation of many friends I am publishing unknown to my daughter these letters written by her while in the service of the . The letters have come to me scribbled in lead pencil and in every color of ink upon an assortment of stationery that in itself revealed the snatching of whatever opportunity to write occurred in a busy life. I make here public apology to the author if I have caused to be .