Question

Read the excerpt from "The Return of a Private."

Highlight the sentence that shows Private Smith sacrifices a great deal to become a soldier.

A few years ago they had bought this farm, paying part, mortgaging the rest in the usual way. Edward Smith was a man of
terrible energy. He worked "nights and Sundays," as the saying goes, to clear the farm of its brush and of its insatiate mortgage!
In the midst of his Herculean struggle came the call for volunteers, and with the grim and unselfish devotion to his country which
made the Eagle Brigade able to "whip its weight in wildcats," he threw down his scythe and a grub-axe, turned his cattle loose,
and became a blue-coated cog in a vast machine for killing men, and not thistles.

Answer 1

A few years ago they had bought this farm, paying part, mortgaging the rest in the usual way. Edward Smith was a man of

terrible energy. He worked "nights and Sundays," as the saying goes, to clear the farm of its brush and of its insatiate mortgage!

In the midst of his Herculean struggle came the call for volunteers, and with the grim and unselfish devotion to his country which

made the Eagle Brigade able to "whip its weight in wildcats," he threw down his scythe and a grub-axe, turned his cattle loose,

and became a blue-coated cog in a vast machine for killing men, and not thistles.

Step-by-step explanation:

he worked hard

Answer 2

In the midst of his Herculean struggle came the call for volunteers, and with the grim and unselfish devotion to his country which made the Eagle Brigade able to "whip its weight in wildcats," he threw down his scythe and a grub-axe, turned his cattle loose, and became a blue-coated cog in a vast machine for killing men, and not thistles.