Letters from a French Hospital (Paperback)

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. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... busy, as my comrade has rather knocked up and my Major is on leave for four days. It has suddenly become warmer and the snow is nearly all melted. I feel twice the woman I was last week; with me warmth and good courage are almost synonymous. (Looks wrong, somehow.) Not much news from anywhere, but 4.1b. of tea from Mr. G. for my "blesses." Bless him. I have discharged five men cured this week, five men sent away, to what? It is anxious work. 10 May 1916. Thank you, I am quite well, and all the better for the ever-increasing warmth. Just now I have no case causing me great anxiety, even my worst being out of the wood, so until the next convoy comes I am free from the most burdensome worries. If we don't get a telegram to-night announcing a convoy I shall take to-morrow afternoon off and go out into the sun for a " lizard bath." I have not had a day off since long before Mr. left, when he motored me over to for a night. My comrade can often have a day or an afternoon, but she is not head of the division. The honour of being that makes you so completely responsible for the health and wounds of the "blessed" and for the organization of the division that things have to be very straight indeed before I dare to absent myself. However, I am not grumbling, because I have the hearts of all my "blessed " and the respect and goodwill of the administration, and those three intangible benefits are to me beyond price. Now that we are in smooth waters for a few days I have taught some of my men how to make raffia baskets and the wards look like an " atelier." But it is worth anything to see how interested they are. My wards are sure that the war will be over on 3 July. The latest arrivals say that in the trenches "des canards" are being repeated on both sides...