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Four soldiers were carrying the Ensign on a stretcher, and behind them an ambulance soldier led a thin broken-winded horse with two green boxes containing surgical appliances on its back. They waited for the doctor. Officers rode up to the stretcher, and tried to cheer up and comfort the wounded lad.
"Well, friend Alanin, it will be some time before you will dance again with castanets," said Lieutenant Rosenkranz, riding up to the stretcher with a smile.