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                          HOW RIFLEMAN BROWN
                           CAME TO VALHALLA

                                  BY
                            GILBERT FRANKAU

                               NEW YORK
                       FEDERAL PRINTING COMPANY
                                 1916

                            Copyright, 1916

                            Gilbert Frankau

                         _All rights reserved_




                  How Rifleman Brown Came to Valhalla

                          By GILBERT FRANKAU


    To the lower Hall of Valhalla, to the heroes of no renown,
    Relieved from his spell at the listening-post, came Rifleman Joseph Brown.
    With never a rent in his khaki, nor smear of blood on his face,
    He flung his pack from his shoulders and made for an empty place.
    The Killer-men of Valhalla looked up from the banquet board
    At the unfouled breech of his rifle, at the unfleshed