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Excerpt from A Guest of the Kaiser: The Plain Story of a Lucky Soldier Upon my return to Canada from the prison camp in Germany, I was repeatedly urged by my friends to enter the field as a lecturer to inform the ones who were forced to stay "back home" of conditions as they existed at the Front, and behind the lines in Germany. Previous to the war I had never made a public speech in my life. I was only a boy, just eighteen, and my object in life seemed to be to enter into as many athletic sports as possible. Therefore, when it was first suggested that I become a lecturer, I was terrified at the prospect and would much rather have gone "Over the Top" in an attack than face an audience. I did not make myself into a lecturer; I was just "wished" on to the public platform. My first month on tour was one continual round of terror and stage-fright. How I survived, or what I said in my lectures, I do not know. The authorities, however, seemed to be pleased with my efforts and soon I was placed on the staff of the Recruiting Committee for Ontario. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.