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HOW TOM RODMAN JOINED THE GERMAN ARMY.

BY POULTNEY BIGELOW.


"Thomas," said Professor Schinkel, as they were in the midst of supper,
"run down and see what all the noise is about."

Tom Rodman was only fifteen years old; but like most Yankee boys of his
age, he was pretty quick at getting news. He knew that the French
Emperor had declared war against the Germans; he knew that soldiers were
being marched from every village of the father-land, and he knew also
that the Rhine was near to the frontier of France. He was just
then--this was in 1870--living in the family of Professor Schinkel, at
Slaugenstein on the Rhine, and quickly made