The Fighting Mascot the True Story of a Boy Soldier
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Sometimes at a big bend in the road we could see the lighted ends of the soldiers' cigarettes trailing along for a mile or more, like a file of fireflies. Till long after midnight we marched, halting now and then to rest beside the road, and at last we turned in for some sleep in an open field just outside a little village. Oh, it felt good to be out in the open country again, away from the shells and the bullets, and to lie out in the green grass and the flowers and listen to the frogs singing... in the marshes. I was tired from the march, but I lay awake for 142 THE FIGHTING MASCOT an hour listening to those croaking frogs and looking over to the little village that was such a pretty sight against the sky. When the sun came up the birds were singing all around us, and I felt as fresh as a daisy. "We fell in after breakfast and took the road that led through the village. Our band was play- ing, and we were all singing as we trailed along behind it, for it was singing that made the marching easy and kept our spirits up.
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