But that makes me think of the old story of the girl who told her grandmother she was going to be married . ` It is a solemn thing to be married , ' said the old lady . ` Yes , but it is a solemner thing not to be , ' said the girl . And I can testify to that out of my own experience , doctor dear . And I think it is a solemner thing for the Yankees that they have kept out of the war than it would have been if they had gone into it . However , though I do not know much about them , I am of the opinion that we will see them starting something yet , Woodrow Wilson or no Woodrow Wilson , when they get it into their heads that this war is not a correspondence school . They will not , '' said Susan , energetically waving a saucepan with one hand and a soup ladle with the other , `` be too proud to fight then . '' On a pale-yellow , windy evening in October Carl Meredith went away . He had enlisted on his eighteenth birthday . John Meredith saw him off with a set face . His two boys were gone -- there was only little Bruce left now . He loved Bruce and Bruce 's mother dearly ; but Jerry and Carl were the sons of the bride of his youth and Carl was the only one of all his children who had Cecilia 's very eyes . As they looked lovingly out at him above Carl 's uniform the pale minister suddenly remembered the day when for the first and last time he had tried to whip Carl for his prank with the eel . That was the first time he had realised how much Carl 's eyes were like Cecilia 's . Now he realised it again once more . Would he ever again see his dead wife 's eyes looking at him from his son 's face ? What a bonny , clean , handsome lad he was ! It was -- hard -- to see him go . John Meredith seemed to be looking at a torn plain strewed with the bodies of `` able-bodied men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five . '' Only the other day Carl had been a little scrap of a boy , hunting bugs in Rainbow Valley , taking lizards to bed with him , and scandalizing the Glen by carrying frogs to Sunday School .
It seemed hardly -- right -- somehow XXXXX he should be an `` able-bodied man '' in khaki .
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