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03 MEDICAL ORDERLY In October , 1914 , I got my discharge from the Moscow
trolley lines and became an orderly on a hospital train operating in the rear of the
armies . I couldn't stand just sitting in Moscow . All my thoughts were in the west ...
03 MEDICAL ORDERLY In October , 1914 , I got my discharge from the Moscow
trolley lines and became an orderly on a hospital train operating in the rear of the
armies . I couldn't stand just sitting in Moscow . All my thoughts were in the west ...
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It was to the accompaniment of songs like these that the train pulled its empty
cars from Moscow to Brest across the plains of White Russia which were limp
with spring rain . I left the operating car at night to sleep in the orderlies ' car .
It was to the accompaniment of songs like these that the train pulled its empty
cars from Moscow to Brest across the plains of White Russia which were limp
with spring rain . I left the operating car at night to sleep in the orderlies ' car .
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The windows rattled in the train . The train stopped at last in a wide glen . Yellow
clouds of shrapnel fire blazed up continually in the leafy woods around the edges
of the glen . Mounted soldiers were galloping past the train . A field battery ...
The windows rattled in the train . The train stopped at last in a wide glen . Yellow
clouds of shrapnel fire blazed up continually in the leafy woods around the edges
of the glen . Mounted soldiers were galloping past the train . A field battery ...
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| Title | The Story of a Life, Volume 4 Volume 373 of A Vintage book The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1967 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2009 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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