The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner
The Trumpeter Taken PrisonerA TRUMPETER, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the
enemy.He cried out to his captors, "Pray spare me, and do not
take my life without cause or without inquiry.I have not slain
a single man of your troop.I have no arms, and carry nothing
but this one brass trumpet.""That is the very reason for which
you should be put to death," they said; "for, while you do not
fight yourself, your trumpet stirs all the others to battle."
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