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Excerpt from Kiltie McCoy: An American Boy With an Irish Name Fighting in France as a Scotch Soldier I might well, if I Chose, Charge a woman with the responsibility for my enlistment in the army Of His Majesty, King George V of England. It was a Charm ing little English matron, armed with a measly little white feather who fanned into a blaze of action the tiny flame that had long smoldered in my subconscious self. Adam blamed a woman, but Adam died quite a while ago as I remember the story. There was some thing, however, before the woman and her white feather, that actually brought me, an American Citizen and proud of it, to enlist at the very outset of the world's greatest war, to leave my country, my flag, my citizenship, even my name, and to enter the service of the king of a foreign land. And that something was a knowledge of that great American game - you may call it penny-ante, draw, or just plain poker as you like - which prompted me to action. 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.