Excerpt from Poilu: A Dog of Roubaix N the twenty years of her married life Madame Daulac had never invested so many hard-earned francs, without first consulting her husband, as when she bought a puppy in the market of Roubaix. But there was an emergency, and monsieur was away from home attending the au tumn maneuvers of the Territorials, a duty which every French reservist owes to la patrie. And then, his opinion in the mat ter would not have been worth a sou. A wool-sorter in a famous carpet factory, he knew nothing about dogs, while madame's knowledge was that of a professional. 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.