human
I don't know how you fellows feel, remarked Frank, as they filed out of the tent and started for their barracks,
gpt
I'm with you, declared Tom.
human
I felt all right before, but that picture seems to have made me tired, because now it's all I can do to stay awake.
gpt
I guess it must have been the picture all right, said Billy,
human
Well, I didn't claim it was from overwork, did I? replied Tom.
gpt
I enlisted in the Army to fight Germans, not to work. All I've had to do is march twenty or thirty miles a day with a sixty pound pack on my back, but outside of that I must admit that I didn't do much work, except dig trenches, do sentry duty, and kill a few Huns as a sideline. It certainly is one grand picnic for me, I don't mind admitting.
human
Yes, and to make you like it all the more, said Billy,
gpt
I hear that there's going to be big doings to-morrow--a review, plenty of marching and maneuvering to give the soldiers a good time, and it is expected a pleasant day will be had by all.
human
You might know something like that would happen just when we think we're laid up for a nice rest, grumbled Tom.
gpt
But maybe it will rain, and then the whole thing will have to be called off.
human
Guess you were right, Billy, said Tom, who had not as yet fully recovered from his grouch of the previous evening.
gpt
I thought when the armistice was signed that we would be all through with this sort of thing, but I suppose I should have known better.
human
We're not through with it yet, and what's more, we won't be through with it for some time to come, said Frank.
gpt
Remember, the peace treaty isn't signed yet, and in Berlin they say they're not going to sign it. And it's just a case of where we can't let up until they do.
human
As far as I'm concerned, I wish they wouldn't sign it, said Bart.
gpt
We stopped fighting too soon, anyway. We should have kept on until we'd carried the war on to German territory. It would do me good to see their cities get a dose of the same medicine they handed out to French and Belgian towns.
human
There's a lot of people feel the same way, agreed Frank.
gpt
But before we get through with them I think they'll realize that they've got the loser's end of the proposition.