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CHAPTER 3
BILL'S TOMBSTONE

There were soldiers riding down the road, on horses two and two.
That is the horses were two and two, and the men not. Because each
man was riding one horse and leading another. To exercise them.
They came from Chatham Barracks. We all drew up in a line outside
the churchyard wall, and saluted as they went by, though we had not
read Toady Lion then. We have since. It is the only decent book
I have ever read written by Toady Lion's author. The others are
mere piffle. But many people like them. In Sir Toady Lion the
officer salutes the child.

There was only a lieutenant with those soldiers, and he did not
salute me. He kissed his hand to the girls; and a lot of the
soldiers behind kissed theirs too. We waved ours back.

Next day we made a Union Jack out of pocket-handkerchiefs and part
of a red flannel petticoat of the White Mouse's, which she did not
want just then, and some blue ribbon we got at the village shop.

Then we watched for the soldiers, and after three days they went by
again, by twos and twos as before. It was A1.

We waved our flag, and we shouted. We gave them three cheers.
Oswald can shout loudest. So as soon as the first man was level