E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 25836-h.htm or 25836-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/8/3/25836/25836-h/25836-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/8/3/25836/25836-h.zip) YOUNG HILDA AT THE WARS by ARTHUR H. GLEASON Author of "The Spirit of Christmas" "Love, Home and the Inner Life," Etc. [Illustration: HILDA in her motor-ambulance uniform wearing the "Order of Leopold II," conferred on her by King Albert in person.] New York Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers Copyright, 1915, by Frederick A. Stokes Company All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages September, 1915 TO CHEVALIER HELEN OF PERVYSE CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE EXPERIENCE (by way of Preface) 1 I. YOUNG HILDA AT THE WARS 5 _Good Will_ 37 II. THE RIBBONS THAT STUCK IN HIS COAT 39 _The Belgian Refugee_ 59 III. ROLLO, THE APOLLO 63 _The Brotherhood of Man_ 91 IV. THE PIANO OF PERVYSE 93 _Lost_ 113 V. WAR 115 _In Ramskappele Barnyard_ 141 VI. THE CHEVALIER 143 _With the Ambulance_ 163 VII. THE AMERICAN 165 _The Bonfire_ 189 VIII. THE WAR BABY 191 _EXPERIENCE_ (_By way of Preface_)