And the boys worked so hard to educate themselves.

All except Duncan.

Oh, but I am glad that my little laddie had an easy time--when it was to be such a short one." "He always wanted to be a soldier," Mr.Macdonald said.

"You remember, Anne, when you tried to get him to say he would be a minister?
He was about six then, I think.

He said, 'No, it's not a white man's job,' and then looked at me apologetically afraid that he had hurt my feelings.
When the War came he went 'most jocund, apt, and willingly,' but without any ill-will in his heart to the Germans.
"'He left no will but good will And that to all mankind....'" Mrs.Macdonald stared into the fire with tear-blurred eyes and said: "I sometimes wonder if they died in vain.