THE CONSCRIPT MOTHER
IN SIMILAR FORM
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The Perfect Tribute
The Lifted Bandage
The Courage of the Commonplace
The Counsel Assigned
The Success of Defeat
The Messenger
The Consul
The Boy Scout
Looking Westward
The Master of the Inn
The Conscript Mother
The Angel of Lonesome Hill
A Day with Father
Things
The Stranger’s Pew
A Christmas Sermon
Prayers Written at Vailima
Æs Triplex
Father Damien
Robert Louis Stevenson
School of Life
The Spirit of Christmas
The Sad Shepherd
The First Christmas Tree
“Five minutes at the most I had with him there by the side
of the highroad....” [Page 95
THE
CONSCRIPT MOTHER
BY
Robert Herrick
Author of “The Master of the Inn”
NEW YORK
Charles Scribner’s Sons
1916
Copyright, 1916, by Charles Scribner’s Sons
Published April, 1916
[Pg 1]
THE
CONSCRIPT MOTHER
I
WHEN I met the signora atthe tram station that Maymorning she was evidentlytroubled about something which wasonly partly explained by her murmuredexcuse, “a sleepless night.”We were to cross the Campagna toone of the little towns in the Albanianhills, where young Maironi wastemporarily stationed with his regiment.If we had good luck and happenedupon an indulgent officer, themother might get sight of her b