TO THE

DAUGHTER OF A SOLDIER-MY WIFE

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I wish to express my gratitude to the editor of Harper's Weekly for permission to reprint in this volume certain papers which appeared in that publication during December, 1914, and January, 1915.

I am also indebted to Mr. Oliver Herford and to Mr. Boardman Robinson for the right to use drawings owned by them.

NEW YORK, January 7, 1915.

H. D. W.

IV. THE HOLE IN OUR POCKET

V. OUR CITIZEN FIGHTERS

VI. THE BATTLE OF THE CONNECTICUT

VIII. THE GREAT AMERICAN BUGABOO

IX. THE EXTRA TIRE IN WAR