Excerpt from The Boy Allies With Pershing in France: Or Over the Top at Chateau Thierry<br><br>Hal paine and Chester Crawford crouched low in a shell hole in No Man's Land. All morning they had been there and the day had worn on now into the afternoon.<br><br>Two hundred yards west of their refuge were the American lines. Sprinters such as Hal and Chester could easily have covered the distance in half a minute; and it was not for want oi-courage that so far they had failed to make the effort. It was plain common sense that kept them in their present position.<br><br>On all sides of them - between the American lines and the most advanced German positions less than f two hundred yards from the spot where the open ing of this story finds the two boys - the ground was dotted with shell holes similar to the ones in which Hal and Chester found themselves.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.