Identifier: soldiersilhouett00stid (find matches)
Title: Soldier silhouettes on our front
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Stidger, William Le Roy, 1886- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ance, bearing the most preciousburden that ever a caravan of the sea car-ried across the waters of the deep; American boys! Your boys! 21 22 SOLDIER SILHOUETTES It was a marvellous sight. We had beenso intently watching this that we hadforgotten about the dawn. Then we turnedfor a minute, and off to the east a brilliantred dawn was splashing its way out of thesea. What are those dots on the sun?Doctor Freeman shouted to me. Why, I believe its the convoy of de-stroyers coming out to meet those trans-ports, I replied. Then before our eyes, up out of theeastern horizon, just as we had watchedthe transports and the cruiser come upover the western horizon, those slenderguardians of the deep came toward us information. There were ten of them, and theymet the great American convoy just abreastour transport. We saw the American flagfly to the winds on each ship, and the flash-ing of signal-lights even in the dawning. Those destroyers coming out of theeast against that sunrise remind me of the
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What are those dots on the sun? Doctor Freemanshouted to me. SHIP SILHOUETTES 23 experiences one has in France in thesevivid war days, I said to my fellow watcherin the crows-nest. How is that? They stand out like the Silhouettes ofMountain Peaks against a crimson sunrise,I replied. And so have many Silhouettes of the Seastood out. There was the afternoon that we stoodon the deck of a ship bound for France.The voyage had been full of dangers.Submarines had harassed us for days. Onenight such a lurch came to the ship as threweverybody about in their staterooms. Wethought it was a storm until the morningcame, and we were informed that it wasa sudden lurch to avoid a submarine. Thevoyage had been full of uneasiness, andnow we were coming to the most dangerouspart of it, the submarine zone. Everybody was on deck. It was Sundayafternoon. Suddenly off to the east several 24 SOLDIER SILHOUETTES spots appeared on the horizon. What werethey, friendly craft or enemy ships? Nobody knew, not even

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