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Then you've a wrong idea, my 50y. I'm the senior private of this room, Eve had the longest service, and I've suffered more punishment through that blastedd Captain than anyone else. He's had a down on me since he was first posted as u sub "A" Company. T grit transferred from "A" Company ou account of him, and how he follows me flo's my game.
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hammer a man when I've been drunk, 7 Don't you know that, but for the drink and my devil of a temper that won't let me tako punishment while I wait, I should have been champion middle. weight of the Army It was one of those Phillipses of the Scots that did me. I sinn't go down to holl comfortable till I've done that job. If anyone else does it, I'll hammer him to death. I'll mash his head into a pulp with my raw fists; and if I can't find out who did it, I' take you on, Brown, my son, and chance it, chum though you are."
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Have it your own way" said those tists; and be langed for it. Brown, sulkily, for he had one felt.
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can come. They called themselves the and groaning camels who would eit "Devil's Guarda," and we called them down, and twisting mules' tails, there when we were friendly with them, the came from a hill on the right which the CO. of my regiment would have 1957 Damued Thieves." Kaowing that
covered by a flanking party sharp politeness is at a discount in the army, spatter of musketry that made a camel you may guess what we called them at down to rise no more, laid a couple when, mostly happened, we were not of men on the ground, and, worst of all,
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The company extended with the Captain at the regulation six paces in the rear of the centre, and the guides and markers behind their sections. Then the company advanced, and the pit-pit of the bullets began to come faster Wilson, who, although strong, was a short man, was in the centre of the company which had been sized that day, for a wonder. So he was just in front of the Captain
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If it wasn't the tight before we start I'd punch your head. The name of my regiments the Devil's Guards But, as things are, take a pall at our pot I don't mean we'll kill all the Afghans but if Captain Harrison, of C Comped pany, doern't get a bullet from a jezil in front, he'll get one from a Martinį The bugle rang out, and the men in the back."
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I'm not drunk for the Devil's Guards, I'm not drunk enough not to know what Tra talking about. I don't say who' do it, but there's not a man in Company that Harrison hasn't got C. B. for, and for most of en he's got cells and bair clipped."
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