Crossword-Solution: POILU 5 letters, 49 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

That 'poilu' across the way, With the shrapnel wound in his head, Has a sister: she came to-day To sit awhile by his bed.

When she got home I think she'd say: "I saw the saddest sight to-day-- A _poilu_ with no face at all.

The proprietors of the tiny _epiceries_ must have been rapidly making their fortunes, considering the prices that they charged the unfortunate _poilu_, dreaming of some small luxury out of his five sous a day.

Yes, it was Marie Antoinette--she walked with steady tread, She sauntered down the marble steps with proudly lifted head; And there were those among the crowd who watched with indrawn breath, To see a queen walk out with smiles to keep a tryst with death! I stood beside those marble steps just yesterday, and saw, A bride upon a soldier's arm--a poilu brave who wore A Croix de Guerre upon his breast--and oh, they smiled above The busy throng that hurried by, unconscious of their love.

Husson, who, after adjusting her spectacles on her thin nose, read as follows: Bread...........................four sous Milk............................two sous Butter.........................eight sous Malvina Levesque got into trouble last year with Mathurin Poilu.