Word: demain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aujourd'hut et Demain...
...Aujourd'hut et Demain...
...Just before the battle at Soissons and Château Thierry in July, 1918, one of my Captains insisted upon keeping a parrot in the vicinity of headquarters. On the day before the engagement it kept screaming, 'Demain, mort aux Boches! (To morrow, death to the Germans!) I asked my aide to muzzle his eloquent but indiscreet pet. But just as my order was given that bird exulted, 'Allaos! (There we go.) Perhaps he had a soul, but I am inclined to think he was just a mean, clever bird...