Between chapters six thru ten, Jeff learns some tough lessons in each chapter. However, some of the lessons he learned had helped him in a certain way. Such as chapter seven, where Jeff was sent to the back of the army because the quartermaster was delayed. Well as usual, Captain Clardy remarked a churlish comment to Jeff but this time Jeff responded in a treacherous way. He answered, “What’s your excuse for being here instead of on the front?” Jeff taunted grimly. “Are you looking for some other widow’s eight hundred dollars?” Jeff continued, “A little bird who flew into the widow’s barn when the rainstorm struck, and saw a wolf sneaking toward her house...remember the storm Captain? How the rain came down blindingly? It blinded everybody,