Khaki How Tredick Got Into the War Author:Freeman Tilden General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1918 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you g... more »et free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Ill Prudence Perkins went over to Deacon Brad- shaw's for supper, as she had promised. The deacon was all deference, all solicitude for her comfort. He was afraid Prudence was not eating enough. He was afraid the chair she sat in was not the softest chair. Prudence eyed the deacon with a cynical eye, and waited. She knew Charles Bradshaw, and she knew that he had something on his mind. Meanwhile, Alice Bradshaw, quick, witty, blooming with the full health of the out-of-doors soul which she was, bronze-gold of hair, clear hazel of eye, sat serving and eating the excellent food she had cooked with her own hands, and said nothing at all. Once in a while she cast a humorous glance at her father, when he was particularly attentive to Miss Perkins' welfare. To the clear, straight-minded young woman, the deacon was as transparent as the window-glass. She laughed at him inwardly, and loved him a good deal. Toward Prudence, the girl was frank, courteous, modest, and not at all solicitous. And so Prudence liked her tremendously. The two women, one of them old and the other young, and both shrewd in their years, enjoyed the spectacle of a wealthy cast-iron deacon flattering a bessemer-steel spinster, because he wanted advice from her, in business. " War is a terrible thing. Prudence," began the deacon, with a manufactured groan, as they sat away from the table a little. " But, thank the Lord, our country is not in it." " I wouldn't thank the Lord too soon, Charles," was the crisp response, " Why, you don't think it's pos...« less