<TITLE>18. Par 65-68</TITLE>L-65 Now, I'll never forget, going in that night, these little soldiers taking me in, their fixed bayonets, and the people standing on the street crying. And they let twenty something thousand come in, and then let them go out, and twenty more thousand come in. So as I went in, I was going through the women's, where the ladies dormitory, in this big building. And there was the door slammed, and a little girl stepped out.
And I love little kiddies, oh, I can just imagine when I get home day after tomorrow, get little Joseph on my back, and Rebekah under one arm, Sarah under the other, what a time we have. I just love them, little innocent fellows.

L-66 I thought... Over there when they--they'd the afternoon meeting, Mr. Baxter and them would; for the afternoon meeting all the people would be down there and the little kids would be on the street. I'd get some of that old money and go down there and buy some of this candy. And I had have string of kids all the way down the city block following me, buying candy. You know, I'd hand it to the little fellows, and cupping their little ears, you know, and pulling their little nose. And we was having a good time, you know, like that. They couldn't talk; so I mean they could talk their language, but I couldn't understand them. So then I'd see the adult coming; I'd slip around the corner and get back in the hotel, you know. So then, a great time...
And that night going in, I heard the door slam, and a little Finnish girl stepped out of the dormitory; and she had crutches. And I looked at her, and she--just very bashful. And I looked at the little thing. And they'd been forbidden, said, "If I was seen on the street, not to go near or something or another." Oh, that makes me feel bad. But you know how it is; it's a stampede, so they had to say that.

L-67 So I looked, and she was standing there. And she--I seen the way she was. One leg was a little shorter than the other. And this leg here had no use. And she had a--a--a brace that went up over her shoe, come up and around her hip, and a brace around this way, and in the toe of her shoe, she had had snap, a piece of leather run over and caught the back of the brace here. And when she went to walk, she'd set her little crutches out, take this leather; that would raise that foot, and set it out; this brace would hold it so it wouldn't give down, and that's how she walked. She'd raise her little foot, set it out and walk.
Now, listen just a moment. Every dad and mother here knows what's a little child means to you. And seeing that little thing, just about the age of my little Rebekah now. I looked at her; I knew that child wanted to come to me. I'm just letting down my collar now to talk to you as a dad or a mother. I knew that child wanted to come to me, and I said, "You want to see me, sweetheart?"
'Course she couldn't understand what I said. The Finnish soldier said, "Ummm. ummm, ummm."
I said, "Wait a minute."

L-68 And I looked at her again; she raised up her little head, and her little ragged hair cut and her little skirts hanging real low and ragged; I found out she was a little Finnish war orphan. She didn't have any father or mother, and she was living in a tent. The Russians had killed her father and mother in the war when they come over the line. I didn't know it at that time.
But I seen her little ragged clothes, and she raised her little head and tears running down her little cheeks, her little baby blue eyes. I said, "You want to see me, sweetheart?"
And it happened to be I had on this same suit. This suit was give to me in...?... And she said, looked over at me like that. She couldn't make out what I was saying; I motioned to her like that. Well, she act like she was scared at first, then she set her little crutch out, raised her little shoulder up. I just stood still like this and watched that child. I might act hard-hearted, but I--I got a heart.


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