ie . Make-Believe

and a dress all diamonds and rubies, sitting
on a throne that blazes with gold and
jewels like the sea at sunset. And all the
men who ever have fought for her go by
on horseback. Can’t you hear the fall of
the hoofs, and the clash of swords and
harness? .... These are the young men
who go by first. They have fought and
won the victory and they are proud of it.
Some of them have wounds, perhaps, but
they quite forget them, and their sweet-
hearts stand looking on, and wave their
hands as they march on and on. And the
Queen sits and watches them go by, and is
proud, because they are all her soldiers

. But listen! Can’t you hear the
cheering a long way off? The sweet-
hearts and the mothers of the soldiers are
not looking at the men who march by.
There is some one coming who is a very
great man, indeed, and they are all waiting
till he comes. The music gets louder and
louder: how those trumpets ring out!