U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [99]
-251- You'll get pie
In the sky
When you die
GORGAS WOULD PUT SOLDIERS IN HUTS
800 FIGHTING MEN CHEER BOLSHEVIKI
Al the arrangements were wel ordered but the crowd was kept at a distance. The people gathered on the hil s near the pier raised a great shout when the president's launch steamed up. A detour was made from the Champs Elysees to cross the Seine over the Alexander I I bridge which recal ed another historic pageant when Paris outdid herself to honor an absolute ruler in the person of the czar.
ADDRESSED 1400 MAYORS FROM PALACE BALCONY
BRITISH NAVY TO BE SUPREME
DECLARES
CHURCHILL
THE CAMERA EYE (37)
alphabetically according to rank tapped out with two cold index fingers on the company Corona Allots Class A & B Ins prem C & D
Atten --SHUN snap to the hooks and eyes at my
throat constricting the adamsapple bringing together the US and the Caduceus At Ease
outside they're, dril ing in the purple drizzle of a winter afternoon in Ferrièes en Gatinais, Abbaye founded by Clovis over the skeletons of three disciples of nôtre
-252-seigneur Jésus-Christ 3rd Lib Loan Sec of Treas Altian Politian and Hermatian 4th Lib Loan Sec of Treas must be on CL E or other form Q.M.C. 38 now it's raining hard and the gutters gurgle there's tinkling from al the little glassgreen streams Alcuin was prior once and mil -wheels grind behind the mossed stone wal s and Clodhilde and Clodomir were buried here
promotions only marked under gains drowsily clacked out on the rusteaten Corona in the cantonment of O'Riel-ly's Travel ing Circus alone except for the undertaker sol-diering in his bunk and the dry hack of the guy that has TB that the MO was never sober enough to examine
Iodine will make you happy
Iodine will make you well
fourthirty the pass comes alive among the CC pil s in my pocket
the acting QM Sarge and the Topkicker go out
through the gate of USAAS base camp in their slickers in the lamplit rain and make their way without a cent in their OD to the Cheval Blanc where by chevrons and parleyvoo-ing they bum drinks and omelettes avec pornmes frites and kid applecheeked Madeleine may wee
in the dark hal way to the back room the boys are
lined up waiting to get in to the girl in black from out of town to drop ten francs and hurry to the propho station sol viol sk not L D viol Go 41/14 rd sent S C M
-253-outside it's raining on the cobbled town inside we drink vin rouge parlezvous froglegs may wee couchez avec and the old territorial at the next table drinks il egal pernod and remarks Toute est bien fait dans la nature à
la votre aux Americains
Après la guerre finee
Back to the States for me
Dans la mort il n'y a rien de terrible Quant on va mourir on pense à tout mais vite the first day in the year dismissed after rol cal I went walking with a fel ow from Philadelphia along the purple wintryrutted roads under the purple embroidery of the pleached trees ful of rooks cackling overhead over the ruddier hil s to a vil age we're going to walk a long way get good wine ful of Merovingian names mil wheels glassgreen streams where the water gurgles out of old stone gargoyles Madeleine's red apples the smel of beech leaves we're going to drink wine the boy from Philadel-phia's got beaucoup jack wintry purpler wine the sun breaks out through the clouds on the first day in the year in the first vil age
we stop in our tracks
to look at a waxwork
the old man has shot the pretty peasant girl who looks like Madeleine but younger she lies there shot in the left breast in the blood in the ruts of the road pretty and plump as a little quail
-254-The old man then took off one shoe and put the shotgun under his chin pul ed the trigger with his toe and blew the top of his head off we stand looking at the bare foot and the shoe and the foot in the shoe and the shot girl and the old man with a gunnysack over his head and the dirty bare toe he pul ed the trigger with Faut pas toucher until the commissaire comes proce's verbale on this first day
of the year the sun
is shining
NEWSREEL XXXI
washing and dressing hastily they came to the ground floor at the brusque cal of the commissaries, being assembled in one of the rear rooms in the basement of the house. Here they were lined up in a semicircle along the wal , the young grandduchesses Here they were lined up in a semicircle along the wal , the young grandduchesses trembling at the unusual nature of the orders given and at the gloomy hour. They more than suspected the errand upon which the commissaries had come. Addressing the czar, Yarodsky, without the least attempt to soften his announcement, stated that they must al die and at once. The revolution was in danger, he stated, and the fact that there were stil the members of the reigning house living added to that danger. Therefore to remove them was the duty of al Russian patriots. "Thus your life is ended," he said in con, clusion.