Identifier: watercolorssouth00puls (find matches)
Title: "Water colors," south of France, 1918-1919
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Pulsifer, Susan Nichols
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, The Four Seas Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he Toy Soldier 42 Jour de Fete . . . . 45 The Postman Priest 49 At Mass 50 Days Off 52 After the Storm 54 Au Revoir 55 Au Marche 60 The Road to Nice 65 The Announcement (ij Le Jour de Gloire 68 LouvRiER 71 CONTENTS PART 11. FRENCH COLONIALS A New Language 79 The Bull-Fighter 81 Friend to the Cannibal 83 Tahitians 86 MooHONos Journey 94 The Fran co-Tahiti an ........ loi The Tahitians Study English iii Threads Joined and Broken 114 PoMA Tea—(Light and Shadow) 123 The Tahitians Say Farewell 126 Tahitian Letters 130 Their Lives Are Like the Leaves 136 PART III. FOYER-BIBLIOTHEQUE Au Foyer 143 The Poilus Books 163 ILLUSTRATIONS Tahiti, the Beautiful Frontispiece The Harbor, Cannes, France ...... ii PoiLus 40 Cannes, Le Port 52 Le Marche aux Fleurs 60 A Typical Tahitian Soldier 86 Ils Pensent en Leur Pays 92 How They Bathe in Tahiti 102 The Primitive Life of the Island 108 Tahitian Girl no In Tahiti 118 The Family of a Tahitian Soldier .... 134 A Hospital Group . 143 Hospital Group . 146
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THE HARBOR, CANNES, FRANCE FROM A HOSPITAL WINDOW Over the red-tiled roofs of the old Riviera town I looknorth to the gray-green hills and south to the open sea.In the early morning I watch long, dark fishing boatsput out to a broad, gloomy sea and the gray horizon.Gray, it lightens gradually, with softer, silver lights farout over the water, to where lies Corsica, a fairy islandof palest amethyst. The mirage-like vision deepens incolor, is touched with gold by the rising sun and sinks,lost island of the dawn, into an opalescent sea, a sea ofsoftest shimmering blue. Later in the day the colorschange to greens and blues unfathomable, while sailsappear on the surface, white and flaming red. Oh! toembark on one of those magic red-sailed boats and gowherever the soft Mediterranean breeze might take one,a veritable adventure on a sea of color over the rippling,mingling blues and greens, spreading away to shadesunnamable. Even as I have watched from a hospital window theboats come and go, a

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