Excerpt: ...as they filed out of the tent and started for their barracks, "but I feel tired enough to crawl into my little two by four and get a real night's sleep." "I'm with you," declared Tom. "I felt all right before, but that picture seems to have made me tired, because now it's all I can do to stay awake." "I guess it must have been the picture all right," said Billy, "because certainly it isn't because of overwork." "Well, I didn't claim it was from overwork, did I?" replied Tom. "I enlisted in the Army to fight ...
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Excerpt: ...as they filed out of the tent and started for their barracks, "but I feel tired enough to crawl into my little two by four and get a real night's sleep." "I'm with you," declared Tom. "I felt all right before, but that picture seems to have made me tired, because now it's all I can do to stay awake." "I guess it must have been the picture all right," said Billy, "because certainly it isn't because of overwork." "Well, I didn't claim it was from overwork, did I?" replied Tom. "I enlisted in the Army to fight Germans, not to work. All I've had to do is march twenty or thirty miles a day with a sixty pound pack on my back, but outside of that I must admit that I didn't do much work, except dig trenches, do sentry duty, and kill a few Huns as a sideline. It certainly is one grand picnic for me, I don't mind admitting." "Yes, and to make you like it all the more," said Billy, "I hear that there's going to be big doings to-morrow-a review, plenty of marching and maneuvering to give the soldiers a good time, and it is expected a pleasant day will be had by all." "You might know something like that would happen just when we think we're laid up for a nice rest," grumbled Tom. "But maybe it will rain, and then the whole thing will have to be called off." But Tom's hope was a vain one, for the next day broke clear and delightful, with never a suggestion of rain in the heavens. Reveille blew at its accustomed unearthly time, according to the soldiers' standpoint, and the boys could soon tell that something was "in the wind" by the air of suppressed excitement on every hand. "Guess you were right, Billy," said Tom, who had not as yet fully recovered from his grouch of the previous evening. "I thought when the armistice was signed that we would be all through with this sort of thing, but I suppose I should have known better." "We're not through with it yet, and what's more, we won't be through with it for some time to come," said Frank. "Remember, the peace...
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