Excerpt from France and Flanders: Four War Years in Poem and Story
Since reaching home it has been the oft expressed wish of my may friends that I would put into book from the varied experiences through which I have passes since my departure from the home city and during my stay in the land of War and Desolation.
As I sit in my study thinking the matter over, what a task it does seem to be sure, for one utterly unaccustomed to literary work, to attempt to place upon a few leaves of a book, the happenings of three and a half years spent on the greatest battlefield of the ages.
If the opinions of those who have from time to time read my letters is worth anything, I have the ability to tell a story in an interesting fashion, and as I have a story to tell, which I fully believe will repay the reader for the time he spends over it, I have decided to make the attempt, and if the result does not as a literary effort meet the expectations of the reader, I trust it will at least have served to pass pleasantly an otherwise idle moment, as the writing of these incidents and verses helped to make the time pass more pleasantly for me midst the mud and slush of Flanders and France.
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