Selection from "The Drums of the Fore and Aft" by Rudyard Kipling.  Performed by "The Live Bard"
Channel: Live Bard
Date: 2021-02-15

This performance by The Live Bard was recorded on November 18, 2018 at the Enlightened Studio in Fort Walton Beach, FL to mark the 100th anniversary Armistice of 11 November 1918, the end of WWI.

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The video includes 2 selections.  The first is "Memorial Day", written by Peter J. Thomas and available in the book "I'm Sober, But There is Still Hope".  Available at livebard.com.
The second selection is from "The Drums of the Fore and Aft" by Rudyard Kipling.
First published as No. 6 in the Indian Railway Library as Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories in 1889 and collected in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories in 1895, and in numerous subsequent reprints of that collection. 

With gratitude to Mr. Thomas Monigan for recommending this tale.

Opening music credit: Song: "Glenuig Hall" Album: "Arms Dealer's Daughter" by Shooglenifty  https://www.shooglenifty.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drums_of_the_Fore_and_Aft