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ined, "I can't take the pup with me and I tied him to a tree down the road." "I will look after him" promised the M.O. and Toban disappeared. "Here Corporal, find that dog, and label him with Pte. Toban's number and company," ordered the M.O. In a couple of minutes the Corporal returned. "Say Captain," he reported, "I found the pup wrapped up in Toban's blanket and tied to a tree." The rush began and the doctor forgot all about the dog until an hour later, when Toban, spitting teeth and blood, stumbled into the room with a bullet through his jaw. "Oh, say Toban," called the M.O., "I found your dog, and he's all right." When Toban's face was bound up the M.O. asked, "Do you think you can make the field ambulance by the bridge?" Toban nodded and started off. A minute later he thrust his head into the room--the pup was in his arms, still wrapped in the blanket--and spluttering gratefully through the dressings, "I got 'im, Doc, good-bye," away went Private Toban en route to Blighty. _The Incorrigible._ Private Saunders of the ----th Canadian battalion was a hopeless alcoholic. In England he had become such an incorrigible that the regimental officers decided to get rid of the man. Major M---- hearing the case being discussed by some fellow officers, said, "Let me have a try at him" and with relief they agreed to his transfer to the Nth. In due time the battalion went to France, and like all others in the first division, took part in the second battle of Ypres. During one of the attacks Major M. was shot through the chest, and left on the field as his battalion was slowly forced back. Saunders learned that the Major--the one man who had treated him like a human being, was somewhere out in front. Under cover of night he left the trench and crawling on his hands and knees searched about for hours amid a hail of bullets and shrapnel, till he found the Major. "You can't carry me, Saunders, leave me and go back," commanded the Major. "Now look here," said Saunders, "you have always been my boss and I've done what you told me, now it's my turn; you do as I tell you," and getting the Major on his back he carried him 200 yards to the shelter of a ditch. Then obtaining assistance he went out and succeeded in having the Major conveyed to a dressing-station. Again taking his place with his battalion, Saunders went into another attack the same night, and had his head blown off. Here was a case where, a
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