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42 and showing the greatest possible courage and handiness in the difficulties and dangers of active service.

(S.T.)

A story which should appeal with special force to Girl Scouts is that of Emilienne Moreau.

She is a French girl, and was living at Loos where the heavy fighting took place in October, 1915.

When the Germans took the place and held it, after their retreat from the Marne a year before, she, with her family, remained there and made the best of things under the German occupation.

She lived with her aged father and invalid mother, a sister, and a small brother of ten.

The father, broken in health and spirits by the presence of the hated Germans, died. Loos was practically empty of inhabitants, business was at a standstill—it was impossible to get a coffin even in which to bury the poor man.

So this girl, with the help of her young brother, got hold of some planks and themselves made one for their father's body.

In September she noticed that the German garrison of the place were getting disturbed.

More men were put into the town, and more defensive works were made. Shells began to fall, and the firing to become more intense day by day.

Instead of hiding in the cellar she climbed into the roof, where through a hole in the tiles, she was able to see the