Page 117 - Among the camps, or, Young people's stories of the war

ran hone and asked her mamma to lend her her scissors.
In pushing the barrel she broke Harry’s head ini pieces ;

but she was so busy she did not mind it then. Just as she
got the barrel in place some one called her, and turning
around she saw a sentinel : he told her to go away, and he
kicked the barrel from under the man and let the stones
drop down and jerk his ankles again. Nancy Pansy began
to cry, and ran off up to Tom Adams’s tent and told him

all about it, and how the poor man was groaning, Tom
Adams tried to explain that this man had got drunk, and
that he was a bad man, and was the same one who had
broken her doll. It had no effect 11 Oh, but it hurts him

so b a d ! " said Nancy Pansy, and she cried until Turn
Adams called a man and told him he might go and let
O’Meara down, and tell him that the little girl had begged
him off this time, Nancy Pansy, however, ran herself, and
called to him that Tom Adams said he might get down.
When he was on the ground; he walked up to her and said :

'■ May the Holy Virgin kape you 1 Griff O'Meara'll
never forgit you.”
A few days after that, Nancy Pansy complained of head­
ache, and her mother kept her in the house. That even­

ing her face was flushed, and she had a feve r; so her
mother put her to bed and sat by her. She went to sleep,
but waked in the night, talking very fast. She had a burn­
ing fever, and was quite out of her head. Mrs, Seddon
sent for the surgeon next morning;, and he came and stayed