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6 wus a lad to be governed by clocks [chuckles softly] ner nothin’ else under the sun ’at I ever hyeard of!

I wonder what he’ll be like now! Mebby the war’s changed him!

Mebby so.

When it fust started I mind they wus lots in the papers about our soldiers a-goin’ into battle a-prayin’ an’ readin’ their Bibles. Sid allus wus good about readin’ his Bible.

[Chuckles slyly]

Yeh, ’specially the fightin’ parts. [She starts slightly and a shadow crosses her face] But don’t you worry about Sid. He’ll settle down. They’s plenty o’ time fer that. [Beaming with unconscious pride] I use to be jist like him when I was a lad, an’ now look at me. You don’t see me a-tearin’ around the country on hoss-back a-cussin’ an’ raisin’ Ole Ned.

No; but I wouldn’t put it past you if you had the strength.