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Updated: June 10, 2025
Only romantic," said Francis, grinning. "I tell you again, Marjorie, you have a fatal effect on people. Look at me a matter-of-fact captain of doughboys and the minute I see that you won't marry me stay married to me, I mean I elope with you in a coach and four!" "I don't think you ought to laugh about it," said Marjorie, sobering down and stopping short in her tracks.
By some trick of fate it had happened that these first Americans who fell in action were of Slavic blood, so the strange funeral which the doughboys witnessed was not so incongruous after all.
After a month in the Archangel field several national army men were transferred to fill up again its depleted ranks. It was the commanding officer of this Ambulance Company, Captain Rosenfeld, who, though too strict to be popular with his outfit, was held in very high esteem by the doughboys for his vigilant attention to them.
The day was marked too, by a grant feast of "stodge," doughboys, and jam, stodge being a delicacy extemporised for the occasion, consisting of "flour boiled with water to the consistency of paste, with some small pieces of raw meat thrown into it"!! The Brothers spent part of the afternoon in the mutual good offices of picking the pandanus thorns out of each others feet and legs, the blackboys following their example.
"Think!" exclaimed his chum. "I thought you'd given that up." "This war is enough to make a chap give it up," Bob agreed. "But seriously, fellows, I think we're lost that we've been going around in a circle, and we aren't any nearer our lines than when we were at the red mill. Not so near, in fact, for there we knew that some of the doughboys were not more than a mile away. But here "
Birkett was arrested, compelled to remain at Brest but later released and permitted to bring the youth to America with him where he lives in Wisconsin. And out on a ranch in Wyoming a Russian boy who unofficially enlisted with the American doughboys to fight for his Archangel state is now learning to ride the American range with Lt. Smith.
And as for the Crown Prince well, over a hundred thousand American doughboys had promised to bring his ears back to a hundred thousand sweet-hearts just a little souvenir to show what an American could do when he got going.
What few units of Scots and English Marines and Liverpools got into action with the Americans soon won the respect and regard of the doughboys in spite of their natural antipathy, which was edged by their prejudice against the whole show which was commonly thought to be one of British conception.
The shells were whistling overhead, and the doughboys dropped into nearby shell holes when they heard them coming, but the lassies paid no heed and made doughnuts all the morning, under constant bombardment. Bouconville was a little village between Raulecourt and the trenches. In it there was left no civilian nor any whole house.
It so happened that these troops were Sammies and Blaine, with a swoosh, swept down to within a dozen yards right over the heads of these men and the column heard his megaphone bellowing: "Watch out, bunkies! 'Ware that wrecked plane! She's full of Boche bombs. Watch out spread out! Give it room! Oh, you doughboys! Rah for Uncle Sam!"
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