Chapter XVI: Flying Homeward 343

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE GERMAN SOLDIER IS BACK HOME AGAIN. _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

THE FORMER CROWN PRINCE IN HIS OFFICIAL FACE, ATTENDING
THE FUNERAL OF A GERMAN OFFICER AND COUNT, WHOSE
MILITARY ORDERS ARE CARRIED ON THE CUSHION IN FRONT 62

THE HEIR TO THE TOPPLED THRONE WEARING HIS UNOFFICIAL
AND MORE CHARACTERISTIC EXPRESSION 62

BARGES OF AMERICAN FOODSTUFFS ON THEIR WAY UP THE RHINE 63

BRITISH TOMMIES STOWING THEMSELVES AWAY FOR THE NIGHT ON
BARGES ANCHORED NEAR THE HOLLAND FRONTIER 63

A CORNER OF THE EX-KAISER’S PALACE AFTER THE SPARTICISTS
GOT DONE WITH IT 174

GERMANS READING THE PEACE-TERMS BULLETINS BEFORE THE
OFFICE OF THE “LOKAL ANZEIGER,” ON UNTER DEN LINDEN 174

THE GERMAN SOLDIER IS NOT ALWAYS SAVAGE OF FACE 175

THE GERMAN’S ARTISTIC SENSE LEADS HIM TO OVERDECORATE
EVEN HIS MERRY-GO-ROUNDS 175

WOMEN AND OXEN—OR COWS—WERE MORE NUMEROUS THAN MEN AND
HORSES IN THE FIELDS 318

THE BAVARIAN PEASANT DOES HIS BAKING IN AN OUTDOOR OVEN 318

WOMEN CHOPPING UP THE TOPS OF EVERGREEN TREES FOR FUEL
AND FODDER 319

THE GREAT BREWERIES OF KULMBACH NEARLY ALL STOOD IDLE 319