The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-30
DEAD ALIVE

DEAD ALIVE
CALI nothing had chosen by lot and separated
hou He there done He enjoyed his rebuton
of master slave He also enjoyed No to of the
who dropped his and begged for crying out that he had
five children.
apparently he had the law his side All that's needed for
be taken with for murdng mind
Unsuitable the whm,
at ALL he seven chance men out of crowd and says
country preten respect fighting soldier,
fellow commands attention has declared that
rights actually known les Dros de rHOmme for all
lookout of the people
who's done like that walk about the and show his
anywhere without getting at by decent people and getting
his head knocked off by someone more decent STILL
They packed the them into old barn. and next
dawn detachment them into the fields to find haysack
to stand them against
"About mile from the village they found one that would do They
lined them up"
At this point interrupted the teller of the story
~ sailor rather moaned out, in a dream:
"Hw it that always be found ready to kill their
merely
They're found all right
"wel they up handkerchefs and
command given: Fire!
"The squa obyed they
the pluck be But though they obeyed the order they felt it,
know and they shut their the kids they pulled the
after this magnificent vo they sat about finishing
egmental true traditions stepped forward
revolver in hand He blew out the brains of two One of the victims
the father of five cried his skull opened Then the R.
he
didn't further There fellows like They
harm they in their execution of their duty then they
when they've had They're better chaps
don't it. He ought have had enough before he began
When the word of fire given Of the fell like log
split before the bullet came along The man oppo-
site him hadn't him when he fired because he shut his and the
first in the row. feeling sick.
cid When the firing squad pushed off, this .stoni.hs
m s A tb . inst s T away 70 moe m h l or n
his and offG like mad aha |
-
hour after those six bodies
the haystack Five only the sixth had simply been
woundedfraured thigh They picked him dressed him.
Gas for the hale hearty night up
day in ble Who's this bird
His hair had actually white Though he fahared chap
and only twentyseven which proved to that this going all white
business doesn't only happen then,
that happened with the books!
"In the biets, he made CLEAN breast affair."
foolish thing do But they didn't hand him they
in the regiment They couldn't put his
roll give him number for by the regulations
dead deserter at that Or that's what they call them officially
he the odd soldier of the SSrd Line Regiment And
shake like leaf when he thought how they up
ensign bdyguard Job that keeps YOU safe
you're never in the firing line.
"He miner and belonged Montigny He had
been mobised the srd of August the giving
birth their frstborn but he'd baby
of the other too and could tell them There
or two like relations got military medal military
discovered what dastardy business and wanted hide
one Of the circle made bold o say:
Don't giving his like that chap The less
known about it all, the better for him, eh?"
rat lot ne cares about all the bighte
seeing how he knocked on and properly
Don't you worry /
ut was this One day. his regiment old
regiment at some He simply couldn't
back Funny thing the hangs the number Of his
regiment If meant something again as
soldier And 1t isn't in that plain
ob from the start OF the fighting regiment
wounded and got patched and back the job
wounded and got patched men don't
at
Hebuterne a shell mopped him up for good and all.
And who knows? Perhaps poor bghers who sent I'M that
shell were poor bighers just like hmpraps the firing
too-athough they
language that wasn't their Anyway last bv bs
kind" 80 ~ $40 .
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