stmas?' a little girl was heard to
whisper. Here he charmed those in the morning of life; away at
Petersfield in the afternoon the sight of him consoled some in
life's evening. One poor old lady, who had lost the use of both
limbs, was carried to her door and set in a bath-chair, and there
she remained till The General had passed. We noticed the light on
her face, and how vehemently she waved her handkerchief. An Army
Officer chatted with her before we left the town in the evening. 'I
can now die happy,' she said; 'I have seen The General. And when
the call comes I know that God will send down the hallelujah motor
for me, and the loss of my old limbs won't matter in the least.'

"I have mentioned 'an easy day.' Having now described in a broad
way the typical early stages, it may be well, in a somewhat more
intimate and personal way, to give an idea of the work, moods, and
trend of the average day of the whole tour. The stress and
excitement it meant in the long stretch of country from the first
town to the last were extraordinary. We mustered, as a rule, at
nine in the morning for the day's work and travel, most of the folk
of the town where the night had been spent turning out for the
send-off.

"The General was on the scene almost invariably to the minute.
Nearly always at those starts he looked grave, resigned, and calm,
but unexpectedly careworn. It was as if he had wrestled with all
his problems, with a hundred world-issues in the watches of the
night, and was still in the throes of them, and unable for the
moment to concentrate his attention on the immediate town and crowd
that hurrah'd around him. But, of course, he stood up and
acknowledged the plaudits--though often as one in a dream. But the
picturesqueness of his appearance in the morning sunshine--with his
white hair, grave face, and green motor garb--took the imagination
of the mass, and without a word from him the people were left
happy.

"He looked a new personality at the first important stopping-place,
reached usually about an hour before noon. His air and mood when he
stepped to the platform for the public Meeting had undergone a
radiant change; all the more radiant, we noticed, if the children
who had hailed him from the waysides had been many and strenuous.
There wa