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Updated: May 18, 2025
Here are little clay tortoises which swim about when you put them into water one rin for two. Here is a box of toy-soldiers samurai in full armour nine rin only. Here is a Kaze-Kuruma, or wind-wheel a wooden whistle with a paper wheel mounted before the orifice by which the breath is expelled, so that the wheel turns furiously when the whistle is blown three rin.
Men are nominated for office, because the Boss has picked them out, as a poultryman might select a fat goose. Usually he selects a man who will obey orders. But another kind of Boss does not especially care for money. He likes the power which his position gives him, he likes to be able to move men about as if they were toy-soldiers.
"Here come the real heroes, Harry," said my crippled leader; "we are dandies and toy-soldiers, by the side of those infantry boys, Doctor, we cavalry fellows;" and we cavalry fellows would have hid if we honorably could.
When Marie Louise was a child, and with her little brothers and sisters used to play with toy-soldiers, the ugliest, blackest, and most repulsive of them was always picked out and called Bonaparte, and this one they used to prick with pins and denounce in every way. The war of 1805, which brought Austria to the brink of ruin, added to the Archduchess's instinctive repulsion for Napoleon.
"Yes, I should think that is inevitable. And you know there's something big about it. I'm not warlike, you know, but I could not fail to be a soldier under these new conditions, any more than I could continue being a soldier when all it meant was to be ornamental. Hermann in bursts of pride and patriotism used to call us toy-soldiers.
But he's wrong now; we're not going to be toy-soldiers any more." She did not answer him, but he felt her hand press close in the palm of his. "I can't tell you how I dreaded we shouldn't go to war," he said. "That has been a nightmare, if you like. It would have been the end of us if we had stood aside and seen Germany violate a solemn treaty."
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