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Show The Whole Damn Three By Edmund Vance Cooke "Johnaon. Marvin and Henry Lea. I trad! all dead! the whole damn three , How could It happen? How can It be? The beat old pale the beat aw. gee: Let me blubber, I tell you! Dead! tiifj niiuit u Kill Kin rr uuu, iim i -ti "Bob got hli man. aa of coum he would. Si feet of Mm, and all to tti rood?. nti:Jn could atop him but a vhcll. And a shell it wu. Aw, wliat tba hell' Why couldn't aetna worthing c;et his Inatead of Bob. Tell you wart It ia. Tbla world lan't run rlcftt. t dn't car rf the whola damn ihrn dff hear me iw Wj I They underatand. Why, even old Fred - " 1 wftj j I ( Like, him, with a bole clean througrh my heart.. 1 ! ' Him, with the heart of a little child: J And when 1 found t)im. I'T Ood, he amlled: t Uttten! Ha did! I havent told t It to anyone elae. His face wae cold. iieen cold for hours; but he .mlled, I a : I "You know we had such a filly old way of sccountln for thlnjca. He a id that -t Him and Harry and Bob and me Kach had a sort of I n via i hie thread. i or cord, and. whenever a pal went dead. That only meant more at mm were tied i To his bygroQA frlenda on tbe other aid Than were fastened on thle side. Then tlie d puli nrid over he'd aot Well, that's the bull That he'd apill for hour. And now, he's denrf. Koyal, loyal, fun -lor In Kred. Then Harry! Gee, what a baj? nf lrk'k' J het no man In the war could mix With him and beat him. He was fit With Kun or at eel or the aid Jlu jit Sword or ahlllelah, rifle or fist. - He knew m all to the final twist. He'd have lasted through, tn a decent w.i. But the caa rot to him and there yvu ,ir "Dead' all gone! the whole damn thre- Nobody left but little mer And it I don't nick in a doien or ao For each of the three before I (ro, It'll be say, anmethlns; haa well. I'll Iid' Hetcha It'a them! They've yanked the cord: ' i Copyright. ISM, hv Newspaper Knterpri Association.'. |