Come you, comrade, your general gives you to me.

Come, Corporal Lagroin,' he call; and I come.

'But, first,' he say, 'up on the shoulder of your big soldier again, and play.' 'What shall I play, sire ?' I ask.

'Play ten thousand heroes to Walhalla,' he answer.

I play, and I think of my brother Jacques, who went fighting to heaven the day before.