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The Soldier and Death

Arthur Ransome

Book Overview: 

A short story about how a soldier figuratively stands up to death

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .d would learn that they had been given whole biscuits while he had only been given a half. "He will be hurt and affronted," thought the soldier, "and his blessing will be of no avail." So he gave the old beggar the other half also of the third of his three dry biscuits. "I shall get along somehow," thought the soldier, and was for making forward on his way. But the old beggar put out his hand and stopped him.

"Brother," says the old beggar, "are you in want of anything?"

"God bless you," says the soldier, looking at the beggar's rags, "I want nothing from you. You're a poor man yourself."

"Never mind my poverty," says the old beggar. "Just tell me what you would like to have, and I am well able to reward you for your kind heart."

"I don't want anything," said the soldier; "but, if you do happen to have such a thing as a pack of cards about you, I'd keep them in memory of you, and they'd be a pleasure to me on the long road."

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Community Reviews

wonderful tale.

3/5☆

I saw and old black and white movie based on this story and for decades, could not find any information on it and I didn't know the name of the movie. Finally on a Yammer website, I described the movie in a Film group, and someone actually knew of the story.... It's an old Russian folk tale about a