ᎣᎭᏁ ᎢᎦ ᏒᎮᏱᏣ, ᎠᏂᏲᏍᎩ ᎠᏂᏧᏣ ᏐᏉ ᏎᏂᏏ ᏧᎬᏩᏟ ᎠᏂᏆᏃᏲᎯᎲ, ᎦᏙ ᏓᏂᏍᏔᏅᎾᏍᎬ ᎠᏰᎳᏍᏘ ᎬᏘ ᎤᏂᏆᏂᏲᏍᏘ.
Later in the afternoon, the soldier boys squatted on the ground, gambling penny stakes on tic-tac-toe, the grids scratched in the dirt with the point of a knife.