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long; and now it came in quite
handily.

She had watched the soldiers do
their exercises, too, and could show
Johnny how to march and shoulder
his musket like any drill-sergeant.

It was capital fun; and Johnny
made an excellent little soldier. He
looked so nice and so boyish while
he was ‘on duty,’ as they called it,
that his sister was quite delighted.

Then another happy thought
struck them.

There was a beautiful trumpet to
be sold at that shop where May
bought the horse; and Johnny had
twopence of his own now. So the
two pennies were sent by the first