Children of the Camp are we,
Serving each in his degree;
Children of the yoke and goad,
Pack and harness, pad and load.
See our line across the plain,
Like a heel-rope bent again.
Reaching, writhing, rolling far,
Sweeping all away to war!
While the men that walk beside,
Dusty, silent, heavy-eyed,
Cannot tell why we or they
March and suffer day by day.
_Children of the Camp are we,_
_Serving each in his degree;_
_Children of the yoke and goad,_
_Pack and harness, pad and load._
Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics were indicated by _underscores_.
Small caps were replaced with ALL CAPS.
Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of
the speakers. Those words were retained as-is.
The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up
paragraphs and so that they are next the text they illustrate. Thus the
page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the
List of Illustrations, and the order of illustrations may not be the
same in the List of Illustrations and in the book.
On page 78, "Bandar log" was replaced with "Bandar-log".
On page 80, a period was added after "leave to hunt here".
On page 156, "Novastoshna" was replaced with "Novastoshnah".
On page 171, "floam-flecked" was replaced with "foam-flecked".
On page 299, there is a hyphen at the end of a line of poetry. That
hyphen seems to be deliberate, and was kept as-is.