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A Straight Deal

CHAPTER III: In Front of a Bulletin Board
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It said, "Well, I like the French.

But I'll not cry much if England gets hers.
What's England done in this war, anyway ?" "Her fleet's keeping the Kaiser out of your front yard, for one thing," retorted another voice.
With assurance slightly wobbling and a touch of the nasal whine, the first speaker protested, "Well, look what George III done to us.

Bad as any Kaiser." "Aw, get your facts straight!" It was said with scornful force.
"Don't you know George III was a German?
Don't you know it was Hessians--they're Germans--he hired to come over here and kill Americans and do his dirty work for him?
And his Germans did the same dirty work the Kaiser's are doing now.

We've got a letter written after the battle of Long Island by a member of our family they took prisoner there.

And they stripped him and they stole his things and they beat him down with the butts of their guns--after he had surrendered, mind--when he was surrendered and naked, and when he was down they beat him some more.
That's Germans for you.


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