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The narrative follows a plucky camp animal who grows homesick and undertakes a daring escape from an allied encampment, encountering comrades, soldiers, and civilian life in occupied regions. Episodic chapters present comic and adventurous episodes—misadventures with lassos, rescues, encounters with spies, run-ins with cooks and wharf rats, a visit to a city cemetery for animals, canal-boat travels, and a near-destruction by submarine—blending animal perspective, wartime obstacles, and lighthearted heroics as the protagonist and his companions navigate danger, loyalty, and the desire to return home.
| “I ran straight on, regardless of bombs dropping all around me” | Frontispiece |
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| Every man of them jumped as if shot | 30 |
| Billy gave one long, loud baa that resounded down the big, bare room | 66 |
| Away went Billy, jerking the cook around trees, over stumps and beehives | 92 |
| One thing Billy butted was a basket full of clothes | 118 |
| The first thing Billy knew, he was rolling over something soft that squealed like a stuck pig and that kicked like a calf | 148 |