: With The Immortal Seventh Division by Kennedy Edmund John - World War 1914-1918 Personal narratives British

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Transcriber's Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged. Note in particular that the apostrophe is very rarely used to indicate abbreviation.

Bring the Jubilee

This is an original novel--not a reprint--published by FARRAR, STRAUS & YOUNG, INC. The low price of .00 is made possible by large printings of combined editions.

Bring the Jubilee

WARD MOORE

FARRAR, STRAUS and YOUNG, Inc. NEW YORK

BACK COVER MAP: BETTMANN ARCHIVE

Contents

Although I am writing this in the year 1877, I was not born until 1921. Neither the dates nor the tenses are error--let me explain:

I was born, as I say, in 1921, but it was not until the early 1930's, when I was about ten, that I began to understand what a peculiarly frustrate and disinherited world was about me. Perhaps my approach to realization was through the crayon portrait of Granpa Hodgins which hung, very solemnly, over the mantel.

Granpa Hodgins after whom I was named, perhaps a little grandiloquently, Hodgins McCormick Backmaker, had been a veteran of the War of Southron Independence. Like so many young men he had put on a shapeless blue uniform in response to the call of the ill-advised and headstrong--or martyred--Mr Lincoln. Depending on which of my lives' viewpoints you take.

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