Excerpt from Rhymes of a Rounder Went figuring another mode of time, wherein the world and all is more happily perceived. To my immediate environment, however, I was recalled by a delighted exclamation from the boy. He had his eye on a gory picture, displayed in a shop window, by which he halted. There was a battle scene from some belated Christmas annual; furious masses of men; trampling horses; the glint of sword and bayonet; the reek of cannon; uproar, blood, and fire. He wanted the pic ture very much, and that morning found that so far as I was concerned to ask was to receive.

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