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[Illustration]

  AMERICA FIRST

[Illustration: "I wouldn't go when you dared me to," said the
tenderfoot, "but this is--different." And he added in his heart: "This
is for _my country_." [_Page 23._]]




  AMERICA FIRST

  BY
  FRANCES NIMMO GREENE

  ILLUSTRATED BY
  T. DE THULSTRUP

  CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
  NEW YORK   CHICAGO   BOSTON

  COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
  CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

  TO MY MOTHER'S NAMESAKE
  AND MY OWN
  VIRGINIA OWEN GREENE AND
  FRANCES NIMMO GREENE




CONTENTS


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  CALLED TO THE COLORS                                          1

  UNDER THE FLAG                                               53

  AMERICA FIRST                                                89




ILLUSTRATIONS


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