Willie: it's sure not clean like home is it pa pa is president and we are his sons and we can do whatever we want
Tad: we have to protect the White House from invaders
Willie: invaders yes we'll teach English to mess with us
Tad: you awake Willie
Willie: am now go back to bed Tad
Tad: I dreamed everyone was fighting each other made no difference weather there were friends or even brothers a war between the North and the Outh (South) do you think that's what my dream means pa day
Abe: you believe in dreams taddie
Tad ometimes (sometimes) don't you
Abe: sometimes
Tad: is there really going to be a war pa day
Abe: I hope not hope it won't come to that
Tad: let em come me and Willie are ready for em
Willie: sometimes Tad took guard duty at the bottom of the staircase in the White House
Tad: halt five cents please it is for the Sanitary Commission today's red cross
Willie: pa says there's a war across the river in Virgina hear that noise like slamming doors Tad that's big cannons going off you bet
Mary: what in heavens name is that noise Julia
Julia: its probably the dead man's March I suppose the boys are burying Jack again their solider doll
Tad: you deserve no mercury u hereby entence (sentence) Privet Jack to death by firing quad (squad)
Willie: so I got a toy cannon and put it on the floor
Tad: ready aim fire
Willie: I fired a toy cannon ball and hit Jack in the stomach and he fell on the floor
Tad: Boom Jack is no more
Major Watt: STOP THERE GET GET YOU STEP FOOT IN THAT GARDEN AGAIN I'LL PUT A HICKEY ON YOUR BOTTOMS
Willie: what do we do now we didn't get Jack a proper soldiers burial so today doesn't count tomorrow we'll just have to start all over again and shoot him again if we shoot him we gotta bury him we gotta dig a hole in the ground and Major Watt will have our heads
Tad: who says we have to thoot him
Willie: he means shoot since he has trouble with his S's shoot is more like thoot Military Regulation you know the rules Jack done wrong we don't get any chance do we
Tad: we'll give him a pardon a pardon forgives a holdier [soldier) forever
Willie: who's gonna give it
Tad: The Commander in Chief of the whole army The President of the whole United Tates ( states) of course
YOU ARE READING
The Lincoln Boys
Non-Fictiondiscover the story of the sons of Abraham Lincoln Robert Eddie Willie and Tad you will go in the minds of Ulysses S Grant Willie and Tad to the day they were born to Abe's death
