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It was nearly three months later and spring was at its full , before they discharged little Ben from the hospital . But the last fortnight of his stay they had let him visit outside the hospital for a few hours daily . And to the joy of a great crowd in the Hot Dog saloon , he sat on the bar and sang his little heart out . They took him down to Belgian hall at noon , and he sang the `` Marseillaise '' to the crowd that gathered there . In the hospital , wherever they would let him , after he had visited the Hot Dog , he sang -- sang in the big ward where he sat by a window , sang in the corridors , whenever the patients could hear him , and sang Gospel hymns in his cot at bedtime . He was an odd little bundle , that Henry Fenn carried into the offices of the Wahoo Valley Fuel Company one afternoon in early June , with Dick Bowman following proudly , as they made the proof of the claim for compensation for the accident . The people in the offices were kind and tenderly polite to the little fellow .