[The Little Colonel’s Hero by Annie Fellows Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookThe Little Colonel’s Hero CHAPTER XV 3/19
I'd ask him if he is unhappy.
_Are_ you homesick, old fellow ?" She took his great head between her little hands and looked earnestly into his eyes as she asked the question. "_Do_ you wish you were back in the French army, following the ambulances and hunting the wounded soldiahs? Seems to me you ought to like it so much bettah heah in Kentucky, with, nothing to do but play and eat and sleep, and be loved by everybody." "But an army dog can't get away from his training any easier than a man," laughed the orderly, as he rode on beside the wagon.
"It is a part of him. Hero is a good soldier, and no doubt feels a greater joy in obeying what he considers a call to duty, than in riding in the wagon at his ease, with the ladies." "You know a great deal, perhaps, of this society for the training of ambulance dogs," said Mrs.Walton. "Yes," he replied.
"I am deeply interested in it.
My brother at home keeps me informed of its movements, and has written me much of Herr Bungartz's methods.
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