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On the Trail of the War

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. WEISSENBURG AND WOERTH. No quarters to be had in Saarbruck, and no time for dinner, for a train was just starting for Neunkirchen and somewhere beyond. I had established myself in the corner of an open truck--the train was composed of nothing but trucks and close horse-boxes--when a friendly official, with whom I had renewed an acquaintance commenced on a previous visit, came to offer me a place in a carriage that was going to be hooked on. I found the carriage occupied by three officers, all fresh from Metz. One of them was a major of the Baden army, unwounded and on his way to Mannheim on military business. The others were wounded both of them; and one who had been shot in the jaw was suffering terribly to boot from violent rheumatism in the head, caught from bivouacking in the open. He had had no sort of cover, and for days in succession, he said, had woke to find himself swamped in a pool and chilled to the marrow. The others found all his dismal experiences perfectly natural, although they had been somewhat more fortunate themselves. The Baden major had not got out of his clothes for a fortnight, and during all that time had seen next to nothing of water, except in the shape of rain: in that form he had had more than enough; but he seemed cast in iron and all the better for the exposure, which was a good deal more than you could say for his clothes. We were all of us hungry, and we clubbed our scanty means for a dinner. The major produced a bottle of capital sherry, shoved into his hands on the platform by some German Samaritan, an utter stranger. For my share I could contribute a corkscrew and a cake of patent chocolate; chocolate fortified with meat extract, and warranted remarkably nourishing. One of the invalids had a loaf of bread a...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154151480
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 44
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154151484
  • Publisher Date: 03 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr

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