“Well, you’re always just starting out! You’ve been hitting the trail all your life. Wasn’t the war enough?”
“Oh, well!” Uncle Dick smiled humorously as he glanced at his leg, which extended before him rather stiffly as he sat.
“I should think it was enough!” said his sister, laying down her work.
“But it didn’t last!” said Uncle Dick.
“How can you speak so!”
“Well, it didn’t. Of course, Rob got in, even if he had to run away and smouch a little about how old he was. But he wasn’t through his training. And as for the other boys, Frank was solemn as an owl because the desk sergeant laughed at him and told him to go back to the Boy Scouts; and Jesse was almost in tears over it.”
“All our boys!”
“Yes! All our boys. The whole country’d have been in it if it had gone on. America doesn’t play any game to lose it.”
“Yes, and look at you!”