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Identifier: fightingmascottr01keho (find matches)
Title: The fighting mascot, the true story of a boy soldier
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Kehoe, Thomas Joseph. (from old catalog) Bacon, E. L. (from old catalog), ed
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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TING MASCOT splashing in pools of water, while the mud at thebottom gripped our feet. We floundered along, not knowing which wayto turn, and the bog grew worse and worse.Once I went into the mire to my knees andthought I was lost, for it took the last bit ofstrength that was left me to get out. There came a cry for help. ^ ^ I m sinking! I m sinking! the voice cried.* The muds sucking me down! And then: *^We cant help him. Were sinking our-selves. I felt the mud pulling me down, too. Notanother step could I take. All the time I wasstruggling to get loose the voice of the fright-ened lad, whoever he was, was crying for helpover and over again. Then came a flash of light. It may have beenlightning, or it may have been a bursting shellor a mine or a rocket. I was too busy trying tosave myself to know what it came from. All Iknew was that it lit up the whole bog with adazzling glare and that close in front of us alad had sunk into the mud to his shoulders andwas slowly going out of sight.
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SINKING IN THE BOG 153 For half a second we saw him. His faceshowed white as chalk, and his arms were reach-ing out to us. Then the light went out. For a few moments he kept calling to us.Then we heard him no more. Another lightflashed, and in the spot where he had been therewas nothing but black mud. I began to shiverand shake as the mud drew me down. It tookthe heart out of me, that sight. I cried out, for I thought the bog had got mefor good and all. An arm reached out frombehind and grabbed me, and with that help Ipulled myself free. The next step brought meto firmer ground. * ^ We 11 all be done for if we dont get out ofhere soon, said the lad who had helped me.*^I was almost gone myself a minute ago, andIm that twisted I dont know which way toturn. Close together we moved carefully along, andsoon we found easier going. Before long weheard some one calling out, ^^This way, boys,and we followed the voice. After a few min-utes we had reached grass-covered fields, and,as a light fla

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