"
Mademoiselle considered this a flirtatious speach and
walked out of the shop. But I consider that it was a General
Remark and not personal, and anyhow he was thirty at least, and
had a married apearance.
As there was not room for the Tent and camp chairs in my
car, the delivery waggon followed us, making quite a procession.
We tried several farm houses, but one and all had no
Patriotism whatever and refused to let us use their terratory.
It was heartrending, for where we not there to help to protect
that very terratory from the enemy? But no, they cared not at
all, and said they did not want papers all over the place, and
so on. One woman observed that she did not object to us, but
that we would probably have a lot of boys hanging around and
setting fire to things with cigarettes, and anyhow if we were
going to shoot it would keep the hens from laying.
Ye gods! Is this our National Spirit?
I simply stood up in the car and said:
"Madame, we intend to have no Members of the Other Sex. And
if you put eggs above the Stars and Stripes you are nothing but
a Traitor and we will keep an eye on you.
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