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The Next of Kin - Those who Wait and Wonder by Nellie L. McClung
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Soon after that I knew, without a word being said, that my boy wanted
to go--I saw the seriousness come into his face, and knew what it
meant. It was when the news from the Dardanelles was heavy on our
hearts, and the newspapers spoke gravely of the outlook.

One day he looked up quickly and said, "I want to go--I want to help
the British Empire--while there is a British Empire!"

And then I realized that my boy, my boy, had suddenly become a man and
had put away childish things forever.

I shall always be glad that the call came to him, not in the
intoxication of victory, but in the dark hour of apparent defeat.




CHAPTER III

LET'S PRETEND

Let's pretend the skies are blue,
Let's pretend the world is new,
And the birds of hope are singing
All the day!

Short of gladness--learn to fake it!
Long on sadness--go and shake it!
Life is only--what you make it,
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