From School to Battle-field: A Story of the War Days

A STORY OF THE WAR DAYS
CAPTAIN CHARLES KING, U.S.A.
AUTHOR OF TROOPER ROSS, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY VIOLET OAKLEY AND CHARLES H. STEPHENS
PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1899
Copyright, 1898, BY J. B. Lippincott Company.
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ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM SCHOOL TO BATTLE-FIELD.
If there's anything I hate more than a rainy Saturday, call me a tadpole! said the taller of two boys who, with their chins on their arms and their arms on the top of the window-sash, were gazing gloomily out over a dripping world. It was the second day of an east wind, and every boy on Manhattan Island knows what an east wind brings to New York City, or used to in days before the war, and this was one of them.
And our nine could have lammed that Murray Hill crowd a dozen to nothing! moaned the shorter, with disgust in every tone. Next Saturday the 'Actives' have that ground, and there'll be no decent place to play—unless we can trap them over to Hoboken. What shall we do, anyhow?