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Show MAKE PET OF CAPTURED MULE Allied Soldiers in France Play With .7.-!mal That Once Was in the Service of the Kaiser. At the battle of Loos, bombers captured cap-tured a shivering German mule, which they dubbed Kaiser Bill, says Boys' Life, the Boy Scouts' Magazine. But the now Kaiser Bill was very intelligent, intel-ligent, and friendly toward his captors, so the men thought that, to be fair to the mule, they had better drop the Kaiser and call him just plain Billy. Billy earned his rations by towing about the brigade bomb-cart. When off duty the men used to play with him. He would answer to his name, and come trotting over when bis master mas-ter called. Billy is slill with the bri--gnde, and the men say that he tows those bombs up to the dump for use against the Germans with the greatest relish. It is odd to see a big, rougn', hard-ended hard-ended soldier in a trench as he fondles a little trench kitten, bis features softening. soft-ening. "Poor little beggar," he thinks, "so helpless and weak. And it's warm and living." 'p, anything erase from the character char-acter of man those traits which make life worth while pity, love, anil mercy? Ease and luxury may; but trouble, hardship and danger never. |