Teddy's Button by Amy le Feuvre
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attendance for the rest of this morning.'
Teddy walked out without a word: he felt the disgrace keenly, but it was the means of bringing him to himself, and rushing away to a secluded corner in a field he flung himself down on the ground and sobbed as if his heart would break. Half an hour after his uncle, happening to pass through that field, came across him. 'Why, Ted, what be the matter?' he inquired as he lifted him to his feet. Teddy's tear-stained face and quivering lips touched him so, that he sat down on a log of wood near, and drew him between his knees. 'Are you feeling bad--are you hurt?' was the next question; and then Teddy looked up, and in a solemn voice asked, 'What does the Queen do when her soldiers are beaten instead of getting a victory?' 'I--I'm sure I doan't know. I can't remember the time when we was beaten. I reckon she's sorry for them.' 'Doesn't she turn them out of her army?' 'Why, noa!' 'What does God do when His soldiers leave off fighting, and knock under to their enemy?' 'I reckon He's sorry too.' Dimly Jake Platt began to see the drift of the child's questions. Teddy |
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