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With the Allies

CHAPTER VII
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The public parks, golf- links, even private parks like Bedford Square, are filled with them, and in Green Park, facing the long beds of geraniums, are lines of cavalry horses and the khaki tents of the troopers.
Every one is helping.

Each day the King and Queen and Princess Mary review troops or visit the wounded in some hospital; and the day before sailing, while passing Buckingham Palace, I watched the young Prince of Wales change the guard.

In a businesslike manner he was listening to the sentries repeat their orders; and in turn a young sergeant, also in a most businesslike manner, was in whispers coaching the boy officer in the proper manner to guard the home of his royal parents.

Since then the young prince has gone to the front and is fighting for his country.

And the King is in France with his soldiers.
As the song says, all the heroes do not go to war, and the warriors at the front are not the only ones this war has turned out-of-doors.


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