WOUNDS IN THE RAIN
War Stories
BY
Stephen Crane
Author of
"The Red Badge of Courage," "Active Service,""War is Kind," etc.
New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Publishers
Copyright, 1899, by
S. S. McClure Company.
Copyright, 1899, by
The Curtis Publishing Company.
Copyright, 1899, by
Frank Leslie Publishing House (Incorporated).
Copyright, 1900, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
All Rights Reserved.
TO
Moreton Frewen
THIS SMALL TOKEN OF THINGS
WELL REMEMBERED BY
HIS FRIEND
STEPHEN CRANE.
Brede Place, Sussex, April, 1900.
CONTENTS
| The Price of the Harness | 1 |
| The Lone Charge of William B. Perkins | 3 |
| The Clan of No-Name | 42 |
| God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen | 74 |
| The Revenge of the Adolphus | 107 |
| The Sergeant's Private Madhouse | 138 |
| Virtue in War | 152 |
| Marines Signalling under Fire at Guantanamo | 178 |
| This Majestic Lie | 190 |
| War Memories | 229 |
| The Second Generation | 309 |
WOUNDS IN THE RAIN
THE PRICE OF THE HARNESS
I
Twenty-five men were making a road out of a path up the hillside. Thelight batteries in the rear were impatient to advance, but first mustbe done all that digging and smoothing which gains no encrusted medalsfrom war. The men worked like gardeners, and a road was growing fromthe old pack-animal trail.
Trees arched from a field of guinea-grass which resembled young wildcor