General Pershing is fond of telling this story. It happened when he v.iis on the Mexican border. A regiment was marching by when it met a small, towheaded ragged Irish boy clinging to a moth-eateu, dilapidated donkey he had been riding, and which had become restless owing to the noise of the b?nd. It was all the boy could do to hold the beast. A joker in the ranks called out to the boy as he swung past: "Say. kid, what are you holding your little brother so tight for?" came the reply from the Irish kid, "he sees you guys and I'm afraid he* might .enlist."-.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16166, 21 March 1918, Page 4
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