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36 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits. New Zealand author; New Zealand illustrator. It is wartime in Europe. A young soldier from 'a country on the other side of the world' rescues and brings back to health a little bantam, and in the midst of the fighting and devastation an unusual friendship is formed. Every morning the bantam lays an egg for the soldier and his friends and becomes the centre of their affection and hopes for the end of the war.