Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
(HonorabIe Mention)

4 that the enemy was not pursuing
them they pitched camp. Many OF
them had fallen that day. but the
little Wooden Soldier was not among
the fallen. He slept not when he lay
down, for he kept thinking of his little
bride at home.
Suddenly he was called to arms by
the bugle, and he went to his place in
the line They were soon marching
in the direction of their enemys
camp.
A Tin Soldier on picket duty saw
them advancing and fired a signal. In
q second there was changing ana
clicking of arms, the stern commands
of officers, then the laundering, dear
ening roar of the cannon and the dead
ly repeats of many muskets.
Out of the binding cloud OF smoke
came the Tin Soldiers, some falling as
they ran. trying their best to get out
of the Wooden Soldiers way, but fall-
ing hopelessly, for not more than
hundred yards in the rear came the
nearly victorious army.
AT last the Tin Soldiers were forced
to surrender to their enemies.
Meanwhile, in a small room sat
little China Doll, looking sadly out
of the window in the direction of the
camp, when in came the little Japan
ese maid breathing heavily and SEEM
ing very excited. Then she told OF the
Wooden Soldiers retreat and the
march against the Tin Soldiers. The
little bride sobbed dreadfully, While
the Japanese maid tried to soothe her.
They had not heard of the Tin Sol
diers' defeat until the Wooden Sol
dier came and told it himself.
About noon the next day little
China Doll was putting on wedding
gown, while in the next room sat
Wooden Soldier, laughing and chatting
with minister, hardly thinking OF
that deadly yesterday. Your nephew,
WALTER GRAHAM.
412 East Sixth street. Boyd street
school, grade Al.
AT night the battle did not stop, but
ragged as fiercely as ever. The sol
diers, being made of tin and wood,
never slept anyway, so that fighting
by night was the same to them as
fighting by day.
Every little while messengers rode
in from the battlefield and brought
the news, and it was the messengers
that were eagerly watched for by the
China doll
One tin messenger came hurrying in
and said the tin soldiers were rapidly
getting the best OF the wooden ones.
This news threw the little China don
into a fit of crying, and she would not
be comforted until a wooden soldier
rode up and said that the wooden army
had the tin surrounded and was on the
point of capturing 1t.
At this the China doll would have
Jumped up and down and clapped her
hands but she was afraid of breaking
herself.
This information was true, and in
little while the wooden army marched
in victorious.
The China doll was married the next
day to the wooden captain and they
celebrated by a grand feast, to which
all the toys came.
HUGH G. HAMILTON.
1859 East Twenty-seventh street,
grade AT. Ninth street school.
Days and nights went by and the tin
and wooden soldiers were fighting
fiercely. The brave captain got his left
arm wounded and the tin soldier his
leg cut.
While the battle was raging the cap
tain's sweetheart Wept, and walled for
fear that her dear lover would be killed.
She didn't know what to do and would
go outside every few minutes to see if
the wooden soldier was coming, but she
could not see anything of him.
China doll wanted him to come home,
for she was very, lonesome.
After year had passed the war was
settled and the wooden soldier came
home. The china doll was very glad
to see him coming and he was glad
to come home
They got married. The people were
all surprised because they thought
that the wooden soldier had been killed.
The wooden soldier and the china doll
lived in a big two-story house and
passed many happy days together.
The captain never forgot the war
with the tin soldier, and the hard times
he had passed through.
JENNIE MACIEL,
Saticoy grammar school, grade Z.
Many soldiers fell. Nursery Town
was in grief. The China Doll was
anxious for her sweetheart, but her
friend, the Japanese. comforted her
saying that he would probably come
home at the end of the week, safe
and sound.
The last day of the fray word came
that the China Dolls lover had been
wounded badly and that he was in tha