[Gutenberg 42733] • The Brighton Boys in the Trenches
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- Authors
- Driscoll, James R.
- Tags
- 1914-1918 -- trench warfare -- juvenile fiction , world war
- Date
- 2013-05-19T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.63 MB
- Lang
- en
[ The Brighton Boys in the Trenches ](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CYR3BA8)
The world was at war; his beloved country was mixed up in this contest, hopefully for the right and as humanely as it is possible to be when fighting. It required soldiers to fight and men and more men and still more men out of which to make these soldiers which were to win in a glorious cause for liberty and honor.
And so, because of the position of his office and the considerable number of students coming to him there, he may have been a little less careful about sticking to the precise regulations concerning very young applicants. The captain had a weakness for[Pg 24] youngsters, being something of an overgrown boy himself at times, and this may have had much to do with his leniency.
The upshot of it was that, a little while later, after some information had been exchanged, questions had been asked mostly on the part of the captain, and oaths had been taken, the military gentleman dismissed the two young fellows with this parting injunction: