Hapsburg Liebe

Name: That Little Mother
Author: Hapsburg Liebe

That Little Mother (1916)

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“That Little Mother”, published in 1916, is a work by Hapsburg Liebe. It explores elements such as capt'in, sojer and David Halliday.

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Hapsburg Liebe, That Little Mother (1916)

“ And we knowed well that the big insurgent had a s'perior force, because he never would ha' attacked the whole regiment in the daytime without it.
I remember it as well as if it was yesterday. The sun it was that b'iling hot that we was near roasting there on our stomachs in the trenches; there wasn't a breath o' wind from nowheres. The prisoners had been armed and sent out with the rest of us to help defend against them savages; and by my side, seeming not to care nothing at all about it, was the pariah Private Llewelyn, in his reddish-brown fatigue uniform and bareheaded. ”

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Hapsburg Liebe, That Little Mother (1916)

“ IN a very short space of time David Halliday was in a capt'in's uniform, with a capt'in's hat on his head and a capt'in's sword and scabbard hooked to a belt around his waist—and damme if he didn't look like a officer in spite of himself! Then the Colonel he took Halliday by a arm and went running toward the horspital building with him, with me a-following close in their wake.
"Act the part, d'ye hear?" pants the regimental commander as they go. "If you don't, David Halliday, I'll make you wish you had! She come ten thousand miles just to look upon your dirty, villainous, scoundrelly face. ”

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Hapsburg Liebe, That Little Mother (1916)

“ In the case of the young sojer who answered roll-call as Private Llewelyn, it done both: it broke him, and then it made him. The first come easy. The other, it was hard and terrible.
Now, a man can't be a sojer for twenty-three years in continuous service and not know men—even if he aint got no more book-learning than me. The knowledge will be beat and ground into him, forced into him whether he wants it or not. You see them come, and you see them go; you see them live, and you see them die—and by this last I say you read the most, sometimes. ”

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Hapsburg Liebe, That Little Mother (1916)

“ WE put her to rest in the regiment's silk flag, under a fragrant ylang-ylang, under starry hibiscus. We fired the three volleys of a sojer over her, and a bugler tried hard to blow "raps" while the regiment knelt. For it was the greatest and finest and best sojer of all that had went to sleep—that little mother.
David Halliday he made of himself a man like the David of old, a man after God's own heart; it become the work of his life to win the commission of a capt'in, and he has done it. ”

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Hapsburg Liebe, That Little Mother (1916)

“ Well, the whole regiment was soon a-worshiping Mrs. Halliday. During the time she felt she could spare from the sick ones in the horspital, she went around among the different companies, with me at her heels; and I could tell easy that she was a-looking for somebody. And one afternoon while we was out on one o' these rounds, she turns to me and says:
"Sahgent," she says, "have I seen every man in this regiment?"
Now I had to tell a lie, I felt; so I salutes and answers with a innocent face on me:
"Every man, ma'am," I says. ”

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Hapsburg Liebe, That Little Mother (1916)

“ The minute he was in his new khaki uniform, he turned himself loose. He soon went wild. The free-and-easy life of a sojer, after his careful guiding at home, completely upset his head. By the time we had spent a year campaigning in the Philippines, he had sunk almost as low as a man can go without being kicked out o' the service with a dishonorable discharge hanging to him. He drank like a fish, swore and gambled like a pirate, fought at every chance ”

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Hapsburg Liebe, That Little Mother (1916)

“ And Llewelyn's count'nance gives it away that the Capt'in had hit the mark that time.
"Did you know," goes on Capt'in Pollard, "that it has been only because o' the mercy of Colonel Lockwood that you have not already been courtmartialed?"
"Please tell the Colonel foh me that I said to give his mehcies to somebody that wants 'em," says Llewelyn.
Capt'in Pollard, that fine, good man, got no promise to do better from Private Llewelyn. I tell you, the boy had fell to a awful depth. The only things on earth he cared for was something to drink and somebody to curse, gamble with or fight. ”

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Hapsburg Liebe, That Little Mother (1916)

“ For Luk Ban's brown men broke in a solid line from the edge o' the jungle that laid along by the foot o' the hills, and we got the order to fire. Luk Ban's rifles opened up too, and the hell of war broke loose upon us all. ”

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Hapsburg Liebe, That Little Mother (1916)

“ I've seen them come, and I've seen them go; I've seen them live, and I've seen them die. Some are men, and some aint. The big doctor was a man. There was scores of wishful eyes watched that little lady leave the main ward, and mine was among them.
THE following day I was discharged from the horspital building, and as I enters my company street I meets Capt'in Pollard.
"Sergeant," he says, "I am going to give you the job of being orderly to Mrs. Halliday while she is with us." ”

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