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TO AID THE WAR SUFFERERS IN THE DEVASTATED DISTRICTS
OF FRANCE
Introduction by
Hon. Raoul Dandurand
Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur
Prefaced by
Stephen Leacock and Ella Wheeler Wilcox
G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1916
BY
GRACE CLERGUE HARRISON
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
THE PURPOSE
This region, in part, one of the most fertile inFrance, and which sustained hundreds of thousandsof inhabitants engaged in agricultural pursuits,has been left desolate, with all buildings destroyedand all farming implements, cattle, and farm productstaken off by the invaders for military uses.
Its old men, women, and children, who survivedthe slaughter of invasion, are now undertaking thelabour of restoring their farms. To help in thesupply of seeds, farm implements, and other simplebut essential means of enabling these sufferingpeople to regain by their own efforts the necessariesof life, the compilers offer to the public this bookon Cookery.
Its proceeds will be distributed by Le SecoursNational, of France, whose effective organizationassures its be