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Rh "And don't forget to buy the boots!" cried the tot, shaking her finger at him to impress it on his mind.

"I won't," he promised, and as he stood looking at the penny-bank, rather uncertain what to do with it, Blake filmed him, as a conclusion of the little scene.

"I wonder if I oughn't to make the kid take back this money?" the soldier said, speaking to the boys. "Maybe her folks wouldn't like her to give it away."

"I guess they wouldn't mind," remarked Blake, with a smile. "Anyhow, she's gone now," for she had quickly slipped away in the throng.

"But what am I to do with the stuff?" asked the bewildered trooper.

"Turn it over to some of the ladies," suggested Joe, for a committee of Red Cross women were to go with the relief train.

"I guess I will," the man said, with an air of relief.

There was a dog who refused to be separated from his soldier-master, and every time the animal was put out of the depot it came rushing back again, determined to board the train. The boys got a picture of this odd little scene, and finally the dog had to be given in charge of a