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almost a giggle, just as though he tried to see the serious side of things but the funny aspect caught his attention unawares.

He had been in France several different summers so could speak French fluently and as a consequence was made interpreter to one of the generals, with whom he traveled about - at one time to the headquarters of Gen. Pershing, where he had a chance to stand beside him and hear what he had to say, - one of the great experiences of the war he considered. At this time when the car in which he rode was about to pass through the gate leading to headquarters he saw the guards gesticulating frantically as he supposed for them to enter, so he told his men to go ahead, when it was too late he discovered they were cutting in ahead of the general. They drew out to one side as soon as possible and saluted as Pershing passed, but he said they were ready to burn them alive and various other things. They explained that it was a mistake, but he thought they were fortunate in getting off [[?]] the next day before charges could be preferred against them. He said it was his great military breach of etiquette.

He was an artillery man (I suppose he meant he served with that branch since he would not have been active would he while acting as interpreter?) and present at the battle of the Argonne. He said that never in history before had so many guns, ammunition, etc., been assembled on an equal area