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Updated: May 15, 2025
The finish was now in sight, and the boys began to shout on every side: "Go it, every one of you!" "Hurrah! Mumps, Dick, and Fred are a tie!" It was true the three boys were side by side. But presently both Dick and Fred made extra efforts and forged ahead. "It's your race, Fred!" "It's yours, Dick!" But it was neither's race for with a shout both whizzed over the line at the same instant.
And the next we heard from Hartley he was located at Camp Mills drillin' recruit companies. Two or three times he dropped in to say he expected to be sent over, but each time something or other happened to keep him within a trolley ride of Broadway. Once he was caught in a mumps quarantine just as his division got sailing orders, and again he developed some trouble with one of his knees.
Mumps had gone into the whole scheme rather unwillingly, but now saw no way of backing out. A little later the Falcon ran into the harbor of Cayuga and came to anchor close to one of the docks. Then Baxter appeared with some sandwiches and a glass of milk. "You might as well eat; it's foolish not to," he said, and set the food on a little stand.
"I don't believe they liked it much either," returned the Doctor. "One man with a sprained ankle told me about you. You shoved him in passing." "Well, you can apologize to him in my behalf," returned the Idiot; "but you might add that he must expect very much the same treatment whenever he and a boy with mumps stand between me and the door.
They nosed about in it, and turned over the scissors and the needle-book, and took a nibble at her white wax, and jostled the spools, meanwhile stowing away the corn on each side of their little chops, till they both of them looked as if they had the mumps.
"People are simply obliged by the laws of the flesh to go through measles and whooping-coughs and mumps, and they have to be born and die, and when they get in the way of microbes they have to be ill and they have to call in a physician, and some few of them pay him, so he can manage at least to live. Of course law is different.
Again and again we read the simple news of home, the cat was dead, or little sister had the mumps, or father had built a new fence around the back pasture, and wars and kings and presidents faded into forgetfulness before the heart to heart talks that had come from over-seas. I don't suppose there is anybody that knows the value of a letter better than a soldier does.
"I'd like to know what Mumps and Josiah Crabtree were up to," put in the elder Rover. "It's queer we didn't hear any more of them. I'm going to get off soon and try and see Dora Stanhope. Perhaps she knows what Crabtree is doing."
He was still feverish, dozing and muttering in uneasy dreams, as he lay back in the old rocking-chair, and Mary Potter, with Sam's help, got him to bed, after administering a potion which she was accustomed to use in all complaints, from mumps to typhus fever. As for Roger, he stood knee-deep in clean litter, with half a bushel of oats before him.
They were then attached to the Sixth Field Artillery. This was the regiment that fired the first shot into Germany. The smoke in that kitchen was awful and continuous from the old field range. The girls often made doughnuts out-of-doors, and they got chilblains from standing in the snow. All the company had chilblains, too, and it was a sorry crowd. Then the girls got the mumps.
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