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A Straight Deal

CHAPTER XV: Rude Britannia, Crude Columbia
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Black eyes the next day, and other tokens, very plainly showed who had been at this party.

Thereafter a much better feeling prevailed between Tommies and Yanks.
A more peaceful contact produced excellent consequences at an encampment of Americans in England.

The Americans had brought over an idea, apparently, that the English were "easy." They tried it on in sundry ways, but ended by the discovery that, while engaged upon this enterprise, they had been in sundry ways quite completely "done" themselves.

This gave them a respect for their English cousins which they had never felt before.
Here is another tale, similar in moral.

This occurred at Brest, in France.


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