The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys

ard pause, which nobod

town with you," Am

of his own to attend to. What that business was none of us know, for we were getting ready to catch the train for here when he rejoined us. However," he added loyally, "I'

rousing to sudden life. "We've don

t done anything," sai

ed within the house,

around and let all the

he credit t

you can get away wi

with a humorous gla

ok the soul of energy

s F

rning the heel of her sock. "If you had to knit all day l

ave to do it," ret

at's all the credit we get. Goodness knows, we're glad en

egarded Amy's flying fingers and

ws don't appreciate what you girls are doing for us. We do-and there'll come a time when we'll appreciate it still more. When we're

ing her hands to her ears. "I can't

vity. "It's because you girls have thought of those things, that you're giving your time and energ

n mistiness which had come before her eyes. "We'll

where she stood with her arm intertwined in Mollie's. "The biscuits ar

ng?" asked Roy,

flung herself upon the top step, pulling Mollie down besi

finished Mollie w

oked p

uired. "I haven't had the painful

oy looked solemn, Grace looked surprised, Amy looked exalted, and Allen was th

Frank returned gallantly, suiting the action to the

ut in Roy, raising himself on his elbow and looking ala

so we have his authority for it. "You boys can never get to the point, unless w

hich Betty's dimples had thrown him, and responded

n the trenches, face to face with the enemy," he said. "Also we were saying that these s

d she leaned forward to pick up the disc

"'The enemy succeeded in gaining a foothold in our first line trenches, but were later d

d her friends with flaming eyes, and both

he cried. "Men killing each other off by the hu

uel, centuries ago. The German people have simply never advanced be

, "is that each man in the army is simply a unit in a great machine. In the old days, when they had cavalry

e is still some chanc

in the aviation bra

diers are being decorated every da

nk. "But there's nothing parti

courage than the other. To stand day after day in those horrible trenches waiting for or

n. "We met an Englishman in town," he added, smiling at

ghting, and to hear him tell some of his experiences is better than a dozen lect

erjected. "He was

hy you should have bro

to have around someth

at was a bad one, Gracie. W

ething," Grace was beg

nterrup

s will be done, and we won't have heard anything abou

egin to think we made a mistake in mentioning that E

I shouldn't wonder if he dreamt some of those

Grace remarked, with her usual languor

. "The biscuits are almos

other longing sniff. "Don't l

, right away," threatened the Little Captain, her

hear that?" Roy's exp

t up, wi

an, rangy fellow with sandy hair and twinkling eyes. Seems he had bee

eyes like two saucers.

ryptically. "Of course it had to be amputated, permanently disabling h

lie indignantly. "You don't have to stand b

lize what we're up against. That's why it's good to have a fellow like this Englishman, who has really been right in the thick of it, relate his own experiences. While h

d Mollie. "You can get right in the thick of it, w

re backing us up, and that there's somebody who cares whether we give a

ning with the light of resolution. "There's real work eno

ried, leaning

to join the