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Title: Young Hilda at the Wars

Author: Arthur Gleason

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YOUNG HILDA AT THE WARS

by

ARTHUR H. GLEASON

Author of "The Spirit of Christmas"
"Love, Home and the Inner Life," Etc.

[Illustration: HILDA in her motor-ambulance uniform wearing the "Order
of Leopold II," conferred on her by King Albert in person.]

New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Publishers

Copyright, 1915, by Frederick A. Stokes Company

All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages

September, 1915

TO
CHEVALIER HELEN OF PERVYSE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

EXPERIENCE (by way of Preface) 1

I. YOUNG HILDA AT THE WARS 5
_Good Will_ 37

II. THE RIBBONS THAT STUCK IN HIS COAT 39
_The Belgian Refugee_ 59

III. ROLLO, THE APOLLO 63
_The Brotherhood of Man_ 91

IV. THE PIANO OF PERVYSE 93
_Lost_ 113

V. WAR 115
_In Ramskappele Barnyard_ 141

VI. THE CHEVALIER 143
_With the Ambulance_