A little silence fell upon the street-corner group. Bing was the first to speak.
"They won't git me in this draft. I got a mother an' two kid sisters to support."
"Yeh, a swell lot of supportin' you do!"
"Who says I don't! I can prove it."
"They'll get me all right," said Casey. "I ain't kickin'."
"I'm under age," from Red.
Spider said nothing. His furtive eyes darted here and there. Spider was of age. And Spider had no family to support. But Spider had reason to know that no examining board would pass him into the army of his country. And it was a reason of which one did not speak. "You're only twenty, ain't you, Buzz?" he asked, to cover the gap in the conversation.
"Yeh." Silence fell again. Then, "But I wouldn't mind goin'. Anything for a change. This place makes me sick."
Spider laughed. "You better be a hero and go and enlist."
Buzz's head came up with a jerk. "Je's, I never thought of that!"