WAR
stairs, where he could see, then let him go and he scampered off after us—just to love us, she said, and got shot for it.
In the most remote and beautiful part of the garden the little boy buried Tankoo. Then he made a small tablet for the grave on which he got Betsy to write:
TANKOO
KILLED BY DADDY
JUNE 10TH, 1859.
I have never killed an animal since. And only the war made me raise my gun against my own kind. But, I think I never saw a man fall in battle that that saying of little Jon's didn't come to me:
"Fix him! Holes in him! You done it!"
And then I would, often, see that little tablet Jon had placed at the bunny's grave:
TANKOO
KILLED BY DADDY
Only, instead of killed, the tablet I saw read "murdered".
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