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ONLY AFRAID OF FEAR.
Midnight was close at hand, and an enu was in sight, though by no means Cube, so the long day of unremitting coil for the RAM.C. stali. The perspiring bearers had no more than another thirty For forty stretchers to carry ashore; bat they handled each one as delicately, with the same gentle consideration for their Precions freight, as they had shown when ired), after a very short-night'ʼn rest, at nine o'clock that morning.
from things one hus read, you CUTLER PALMER: &. COPS-
know. But, somehow, it didn't put me of him at all; 1 liked the boy from the first when he came to us from the depôt company, a month or two before we went out. got the commanding officer to post him to our "B" Company, because the officer in command of that company- you won't see him, I'm sorry to say, ever --was very much a Sahib, and a very patient, kindly chap. But, even to him, young was never confidential in the way he was with me. He told me ali bis troubles, or most of them, and naturally,
helped him all I could.'"
"Ho hated the sound of his own voice, you know, on parade; that kind of hoy bat, begad, he fathered and mothered his platoon till, upon my word, be kaew the precise condition of every man's Hocks. his men one night, when either of them Simpson, I heard him say to one of
knew anyone was within hearing,
A REVELATION.
you
But, of course, they would be very gentle and considerale; naturally they would take every possible care in hand-haven't given me a letter for your mother For three weeks, and you've written half ing our dear wounded heroes," a lady a dozen to girls and pals this week, said to me not long since, when I was should if I were you. And I'm open to
Nothing to do with me, but-eh?
telling her of the fine work of the bet Simpson did. The boy may have R.A.M.C, men. Yes, yes, but I rather nelly-coddled 'em a bit; but there's no "object to the "of course." Let the ama
doubt they loved him; and nobody could find fault with the discipline of his feur lady or gentleman, with the best will platoon, for he'd only to lift a finger and and heart in the world, try carrying the whole lot of em would have walked
over & precipice for him. stretcher cases with hardly a pause from nina till midnight, in stuffy July weather, and they will find their good will, and even their strong muscles, will fail them pretty badly after the first three or four hours. Scientific training, patiently inculcated discipline, and very real exprit de corps have gone to the perfecting of this fine service, as one sees it on the landing-stage at Southamp to 10-day. And then, on top of all thai, we come to the heart and the will; to the really ine devotion to duty. There is here a deal more than the conscientious Any intelligent ab discharge of duty. server who has watched the system at work during the past week or two will share my objection to the outsider's "of course.”.
FL.
1 was turning away from talk with a walking case, a young lieutenant, wound- ed in hand and arm, but in towering spirits. He had been sitting on the side of a cot, and was off now to his train. In turning, my eye caught a slight more ment in the end cot of that ward, almost the only cot I had not visited, though I hud glanged more than once at its much bandaged occupant. One rather avoids thest trad-bandaged cases, lest. one should tempt a man to talk when he would be better dozing or keeping still. However, I could not ignors this gesture and so, presently, was introducing my self to Major, second in command of a Bervice Battalion which made a ne nan for itself before it had been three months in trenches:
· THE" BRAYERS ACT,
heard you asking that lad what was the bravest art he saw in the break through the Boche second system.
· didn'i aşk mė.
You
Because I saw all your head band- ages, and I thought you'd be better with out talking."
It
never
advance, when we were back at in It was two nights before the first billets, that I first learned he was afraid, mortally afraid. No one else had ever
I guessed it, I'm certain; and should. But he told me, and there was no mistaking the fact that he was in agony over the telling. It wasn't straf- ing he feared. He wasn't afraid of. Boches, or of being killed, but he was mortally terrified of being afraid, afraid
Fear: that was his trouble might think it a small matter, fancy, and Well, I know what I'm talking on. about, because I had always kept an eye on the boy, and after this 1 kept two eyes on him, hard..
You
known.
You may have heard that our batta tion rather distinguished itself. Wo were in the first advance, and others.. Ten minutes before I was knocked out
He young --- was killed, by a bomb. lived for about three minutes after he was bit, and he died in my arms. I was glad he died, and I think he tasted greater happiness in dying than he'd ever have known in living, since the war began He'd lived, without being алу how. wounded, through nearly a fortnight of the most hellish fighting over But so did thousands of others, you say.
Now Yes, but it was different with that boy who's just gone ashore bless bis heart! His kind are the salt of the earth, and the glory of the Army. The whole business was glorified football to him, the breath of his nostrils. He was dancing happy, from first te last; and now he's got a German lieutenant's hel met, taken in fair ngning and there's no happier lad in England. no dap
And he arrerves all he's got, and more.
But with my lad, with young. I tell that fortnight was not less than one long
intolerable crucifixion to him, because of the terror that went everywhere with him, and never left him for a second: the ghastly fear of Fear; the dread that he was going to be afraid, and disgrove him- self and the platoon that swore by him.
was
No. my jaws are all right.”' (It is queer the way one sees the smile creep on from under the bandages in these
A MATTER OF TEMPERAMENT. casts.) "Mine are hend scratches-
Eb, but believe me, that norbing to write home about-anyhow,
a poet, I'll be out again in a month, please the bravery, if you like. He was
Yes, a brave 1nd that, 1 should you know. No, I mean actually. H pigs.
had published verse, and was to make say the chap you were talking to.
his living writing. I had same little was fine the way he got that Boche machine gunner. And one could see in talk with him nearly every night all his face, and the careless way he talked through that terrific time. Nothing could of it, he is naturally a brave chay; comes reassure him. nothing could teach him, trust himself. natural to him. "Fine, that; and, thank he could not learn to God, our New Army's just full of it; full Even killing a Boche with a bayonet, as of it. Great versatility, you know, in I saw him kill a big chap of the Prus- The New Army, We've got some of all sian Guard just in time to prevent the seris, The majority are very brave, I sarne chap killing one of the platoon, think-naturally brave; and here and even that taught him nothing; and, as there there's a chap not naturally brave, a rule, the first killing with the steel and sometimes, you know, it may be he's teaches a whole lat, you know. No, he the ravest of the whole lot I some
was incurable, and apparently he could times think so. We've got the spirit and not get killed. the atmosphere in our Service Battalions, That's the main thing
hot fire to pick up and carry in one of his own wounded, and three times, to my knowledge, the wounded man was hit and killed in his arms, while he went un- touched.
Anyone else would have been killed fifty times over. He showed no regard We've got it. The French army has whatever for his own safety. He gave it.The Bache Oh, he has has magni-himself no chance at all. He courted ficent discipline, the most wonderful or death, and death looked the other way I don't mean in the least ganisation, the biggest military machine every time.
Not a bit. in the world. But he has not got, and that he committed suicide. under the present régime never will have, What I mean is, tha: he showed more and self forgetful, unconscions had utter the spirit, the atmosphere that we in our old Army and that we have in the bravery than anyone I ever saw in my At least a dozen times he must New. The French have it. The Boche life. hasn't got it. No machine can produce have deliberately stepped out into a ít. It's a thing intangible and inde scribable; the fighting spirit; the no-sur. render tradition; the free atmosphere, in which each man is determined to see the show through; not because some officer ur non commissioned officer will give him hell if he shirks it-that's how it is with the Borke but because because of the intangible something in the atmosphere of his battalion, in which he lives and was trained, and in which he will die, if need be, quite cheerily. The Bache can't produce it; never, never, never But, thank God, our New Army's go it, just as sure as ever the old Army had it; and it--it's invisible, believe me.
BTORY OF A BOY.
But you're in a hurry." "No, no; not a bit of it. Here, let me light that cigarette for you. Right. Do go ahead."
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"Brave! He was a knight of old chivalry, More fearless acts no post ever. wrote about than he performed a dozen- times a day during that fortnight, And all the time I knew, and nobody else but himself knew, that he went in mortal fear, afraid, as most soldiers never have been--not of being killed, God knows, HOW TO GAIN 15 TO 40 LBS. but of being afraid. He was smiling like like a woman when he died. He said, They never guessed. I'm so thank- ful that
And then he was gone But I knew well what he would have said.
BEST AND BRAVEST.
never
Stop being a human beanpole.
Chase away that long, lean, hungry look that makes folks think you're sick or that you're not getting three square meals a day.
Give the merry laugh to the would-he witty friend who, aske you what makes you look so peaked and tells you you'd better see a doctor.
Begin to-day to put from 15 to 40 pounds of good, arm, healthy, permanent stay there" flesh and tissue on those spare bones of yours.
Oh, it's nothing, but I just thought I'd like to tell you about a boy in my battalion, if you're sure you've got time. He was rather like that lad who's jast gore, to look at no older; bit thinner, aud in temperament, about as different as, imagine, a rather over-trained, inbred racehorse is from a prize ex, his name was, but you'll not mention and bravest I've seen, why. I tell you,new, simple, harmless home treatment
that, of course, will you. You mustn't on any account mention his name."
I nodded. The cigarette had to be lighted again, but it was rather a waste of matches. Major fell what he was talking about a deal more than he would have owned. That was obvious.
"I'd never had any particular track with temperaments. We don't, you know, in the Army. That is, we didn't.
the New Army, of course, we get all sorts. It's national, you see. Well, I recognised the signs fairly early in young
I wish I knew how to tell you pro- perly, but it's hopeless. Only what you asked that lad make me think of it. I've been a soldier all my life. I've seen more than one win the V.C. But I have seen, and never expect to see, any
showed In For we say that the skinniest, scraw- such bravery as young- the last fortnight. The public will never niest man or woman can quickly fl! hear of him, and he wouldn't want 'em out "become plump yes, with actual to. But if you ask me what's the best healthy fat, in sixty days and all by a of all the brave men buried behind the that can't possibly hurt you, that imposes Somme and the Ancre, aye, or behind no hardships, no disagreeable diets, no Verdun, there's not one-not one, in my foolish "rub ons" that can be taken betief-braver than the junior platoon privately in your own home without the commander of my battalion, young —” knowledge of anyone. SARGOL tablets do A minute later the stretcher-bearers the work, your chemist keeps them in came for Major, and he was taken stock.
A. 6. WATSON & Co., Lrn, I did no more talking. but ashore.
VICTORIA DISPENSARY, went straight back to the hotel, and now
THE PRABHAOT. I have written out what he said; his tribute and mine, to a hero, who shall remain, as he would have preferred, nageless-Daily Telegraph.
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