The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-17

ought 10 have seen the battalion
ON parade this niornlngi Hy God.
they were magnificent. They're the
finest thing that ever happened.
There's nothing In the Army List TO
touch us, When | think IN be Ia
action with them perhap. inside a
wrck--i--''
An orderly approached and spoke
TO him. Right. Right, III csme
along at once" lie was swiftly
away. Patterson. want you too.
rhore's a man In your company says
hin wife"
And. ptilied during his presence.
babel broke out anew with his de.
rarturo. som. one. standing on q
sofa. caught w osway's last word
into a hawiing song
Tive so, a ~ife and aixteen Kids.
I've got wife and sixteen kids.
I've got wife and
A cushion whIzned across the room
into his face. A tag began. Skies on
the table was leysnK down laws of
equipment At the top OF his voice.
well. I'm golnS 10 take nothing but
socks I'm going to stuff my pack
absolutely huns fun Of socks. Man
alive. tell you nothing matters ex'
capt socks. IL you can keep on get.
ting clean socks svery--I'm going 70
stuff In socks enough 10 last"
A wy .hs~s si~s afterwards.
white the iaetdsnf wws fr~sh In his
n.<ss.vr. -afxe hssfa thsf ~ike> s..k
sat ~ r~fr~ - sssxs ard Wa killed.
81 Mss~. In tho pair he Landed 10.
III
The blessed gin in war was 20 be
without Imagination. The supreme
trial. whether IN endurance on the
part Of those who stayed az home. or
In courage on the part OF those who
took the field. was upon those whose
mentality invested every sight and
every happening with tho poignancy
OF attributes not present but mag
ined. Fpr sabre the war definitely
began with that visit 20 the Mess on
the eve Of the Pinks. departure. The
high excitement OF The young men.
their eager planning. the almost re-
llsioua ccstaHy % Otway al the con
summation Of hts iife's dream. moved
sabre. visioning what might await u
all. In depths profound end painful
In their intensity. IFS mind would
not abandon them. lie sat un That
night after Mabel had gone 10 her
room. How on earth could he 60 10
bed. b. hoagishly sleeping. while
those chaps we're marching out7
He could not AZ two IN the morn.
ing he went quietly from tho house
and got out his bicycle and rode
down into Marlborough.
lie was Jus, In time. The news had
been well kept. or In those early days
had not tho meaning Il came 70 have.
Nevertheless few people stood about
the High Street in the thin light Of
the young morning, and when. al.
most Immediately, the battalion came
swinging out Of the Market Place,
many appeared Thanking II. mostly
I women.
Here they Gomez
Frighiful words. Sabre caught
them from a young woman spoken
20 a very old woman whose arm she
held a few PAGES from where hs
stood. Frlghtful wordsi lie caught
HIS breath. and. more dreadfuily upon
his emotions. as the head Of the col
umn came into sight. the band. TAX
ing them 10 the station. burst into
the Pinks' familiar quickstep.
THE Camp Town races are five'mIIe'
long.
boo. dai Doo-da'
The Camp Town races arc five miles
long.
Doc dai Doc dal Day
Gwine to run all night. Gwins tc
run all day.
I bet my money on the bob-tail nag
Somebody bet on the bayf
lie never in his life had expert
enced anything 80 utterly frighifu
or imagined that anything could b'
40 utterly frightfui. His throat fell
bursting. Ills eyes were filled. They