And I told him I would be ten pretty soon now , so it wo n't be very long before I 'll be eighteen , and then I 'll go to help him fight , and maybe let him come home for a rest while I took his place . I wrote Jerry , too . Jerry 's getting better , you know . '' `` Is he ? Have you had any good news about him ? '' `` Yes . Mother had a letter to-day , and it said he was out of danger . '' `` Oh , thank God , '' murmured Mrs. Blythe , in a half-whisper . Bruce looked at her curiously . `` That is what father said when mother told him . But when l said it the other day when I found out Mr. Mead 's dog had n't hurt my kitten -- I thought he had shooken it to death , you know -- father looked awful solemn and said I must never say that again about a kitten . But I could n't understand why , Mrs. Blythe . I felt awful thankful , and it must have been God that saved Stripey , because that Mead dog had ` normous jaws , and oh , how it shook poor Stripey . And so why could n't I thank Him ? ` Course , '' added Bruce reminiscently , `` maybe I said it too loud -- 'cause I was awful glad and excited when I found Stripey was all right . I ` most shouted it , Mrs. Blythe . Maybe if I 'd said it sort of whispery like you and father it would have been all right . Do you know , Mrs. Blythe '' -- Bruce dropped to a `` whispery '' tone , edging a little nearer to Anne -- `` what I would like to do to the Kaiser if I could ? '' `` What would you like to do , laddie ? '' `` Norman Reese said in school to-day that he would like to tie the Kaiser to a tree and set cross dogs to worrying him , '' said Bruce gravely .
`` And Emily Flagg said she would like to put him XXXXX a cage and poke sharp things into him .
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