Bob was deeply interested.
"Our Boy Scouts at school are doing good work too. They are all anxious to spend vacation time on farms. I hope to get permission from mother and father to go to one during the summer. There isn't a boy at school who isn't anxious to help at this time and I wish you could see the big garden we have there. I wonder if Jim Lee will go to France," the boy added.
"He is anxious to go, but of course no one knows what is to be done," replied Mary Lee.
"Isn't it great to be part of such a big undertaking? Of course, war is terrible, but I've often envied the boys and men who lived during the Civil War. Now we are living in even bigger times and it's great to help, even if only in a small way."
"I noticed yesterday how naturally you walk, Bob. No one would ever suspect you had ever been lame."
The boy flushed with pride. He was proud of the fact that he was now like other boys. He valued the use of both his limbs, the more, because he had been so long without their use. Nothing pleased him so much as to be told he was like other boys.
Letty came in a little later and the three took a long walk.
"Isn't Bob brave to travel by himself on a sleeper? I'd be scared," said Letty.
"Huh," answered the boy, "that's because you're a girl. At that," he added, "I'll bet Mary Lee wouldn't be afraid."