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It was on a cool, starlit evening, early in September, 1916, that I first met Drew of Massachusetts, and actually began my adventures as a prospective member of the Escadrille Américaine. We had sailed from New York by the same boat, had made our applications for enlistment in the Foreign Legion on the same day, without being aware of each other's existence; and in Paris, while waiting for our papers, we had gone, every evening, for dinner, to the same large and gloomy-looking restaurant in the neighborhood of the Seine | High Adventure by James Norman Hall 1 High Adventure by James Norman Hall The Project Gutenberg EBook of High Adventure by James Norman Hall 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 High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France Author James Norman Hall Release Date February 11 2008 EBook 24570 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 2 High Adventure by James Norman Hall START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HIGH ADVENTURE Produced by Kevin Handy Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http The Riverside Library High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France By JAMES NORMAN HALL Illustration BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT 1917 AND 1918 BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1918 BY JAMES NORMAN HALL ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published June 1918 The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE . TO SERGENT-PILOTE DOUGLAS MACMONAGLE KILLED IN COMBAT NEAR VERDUN SEPTEMBER 25 1917 Illustration THE AUTHOR Contents I. THE FRANCO-AMERICAN CORPS 1 II. PENGUINS 24 III. BY THE ROUTE OF THE AIR 47 IV. AT G. D. E. 79 V. OUR FIRST PATROL 107 VI. A BALLOON ATTACK 144 VII. BROUGHT DOWN 167 VIII. ONE HUNDRED HOURS 182 IX. LONELY AS A CLOUD 200 X. MAIS OUI MON VIEUX 209 High Adventure by James Norman Hall XI. THE CAMOUFLAGED COWS 216 3 XII. CAFARD 226 LETTER FROM A GERMAN PRISON CAMP 233 HIGH ADVENTURE I THE FRANCO-AMERICAN CORPS It was on a cool starlit evening early in September 1916 that I first met Drew of Massachusetts and actually began my adventures as a prospective member of the Escadrille Américaine. We had sailed from New York by the same boat had made our applications for enlistment in the Foreign Legion on the same day without being aware of