The Seaforth News, 1917-08-16, Page 2.WOCIftits7.
Author of
,,An for a soraoO pacer," "Dearer Than
Life." etc. .1uUltahod by liodder
Stoughton, Limited, London and Toronto
CHAPTER III,—(Cont'd.) I didn't eorne into the Army to be-
come religious; 1 joined to fight he
"I have heard there is a young par- blooming Germans, and what'e fig it -
son going after you. .Ave you going ing got to do with religion?"
to make a match of it, Alice?" And
again be laughed. "Maybe it has a gocel deal if ems:
"Good-bye, Tom, I hope you will do feel yen are fighting for a good
rose; "betides, the
welLe And Alice left him with cause," replied Pen
strange fluttering in hi$ heart. a Y. ou 14, 0, A, chaps are not ninnies, as
ycid] them. Some of them are
Tom ;joined the Loyal North Lan- the best fellows we have,"
cashires. I will not •say which bat- .
talion, as the mention oi
f t might Na religious lolly -pops f or me,"
said rem, I had enough of t mt a ten
reuse seine of my readers to identify I lived 1' Brunford."
the led whose story I am telling. 1i "Of course you can go your own
1 s
unit waeloeeted at a large Lancashire
wen" said Penrose. "I suppose you
town some thirty miles from Brun- will spend your evening in the public-
fOrd. Here he was initiated into the house or at some cinema show, or
perhaps you will be larking around
with some silly girls; but 1 am going
to the Y.M.C.A,"
"Do you go there?" cried Tom in
astonishment, For Penrose was look -
secrets of a soldier's bfe. At rust
everything was a drudgery to him; he
could not see the meaning of what he
was doing, could not understand how
"fmming fours" and other parts of
Itis drill could help him to be a soldier, d
e upon as anything but goody-goody,
Still, being a fairly sharp; common -
and he was generally admired. Ile
sense lad, he picked up his work quick -
In and in the course of a few weeks was the. best boxer in the company;ly,
was smart in drill, could do long
was physically much better for his
marches with the best of them, and
training, At the end of three months
he was nearly two inches taller, aria, was always ready to do a kindly ac -
more than three inches bigger around tier" Besides all that, his evident
education and social superiority made
the chest than at the time he joined.
rumor -
He began to enjoy his work, too. The him a marked man, It was • too, that he, had refused n com-
min • subaltern whose duty it . .
misum.
was to train the company had
$
' Ot cOurse I go," replied Penrose.
more than once singled him
"What and listen to their pie -jaw?"
"Theee is precious little pie -jaw, as
out as capable fellow, itnct as
the cold winter days eassed away and
you cell, it," wns Penrose's response.
"We. have jollygood entertainments
almost every night, end some of the
Yellows who come to talk to us are not
half bad, I can tell you. Besides, I
go there to rub im my conversational
French."
"Conversational French!" said Tom,
only dimly understanding what he
meant, "Dost 'a mean to sty that
thev learn you Freneh there?"
°There's it Frenchman who gives
his services free," replied Penrose.
"It's jolly good of him too, for the
poor wretch has hardly a sixpence to
his mune; still he does it, In his way
he's (mite a French scholar, and he
has helped me no end."
"Ay, but you learnt French at
school, said Tom; "he would have
nowt to do wi' a chap like me."
"Don't be an ass. Why, dozens of
• fellows got to him every night. A
fpw weeks ago they didn't know a
word of French, and now they aro
• melung it up like mad. Besides all
that, the Y.lel .0. A. rooms are open
every night, they have nil sorts of
games there, lots of newspapers, and
1 they give you every facility for writ-
ing lettees end thet sort of thing,"
(To be continued.)
There are to be no flying schools in
Britisb Columbia. It has been decide
ed to abandon the Lulu Island scheme.
Great Britain has enrolled between
5,000,000 and 5,500,000 men as sol-
diers, or one in eight of the popula-
tion. Canada has enrolled one in
twenty.
Cultivation of the corn is. as essen-
• tial in a damp season as a dry one,
in a dry season it conserves moisture
and in a damp one it prevents coin-
,pacting of the soil.
spring began to advence Tom could -----e---'
undergo a twenty or thety-mile march
without weariness. He was well fed,
well housed, and well clothed, and
while his pocket money was not ex-
travagant, he had enough for his
need.
Indeed in many respects it would
have been better for Tom if he had
had less money, The influence of the
Thorn and Thistle was still strong
upon him, and I have to relate with
sadness that on more than one occas-
ion Tom barely escaped punishment
for being drunk and disorderly, Most
of the lads with whom he was brought
into contact were, on the whole, steady
and well-behaved, On the other hand,
however, there were a number of them
who had a bad influence upon him, en
fact, while he narrowly escaped be-,
ing brought before his superiors for
his various misdemeanours, Tom's
character was steadily deteriorating.,
The first flush of enthusiasm, and
loyalty, and even something nobler
than loyalty, which had been aroused
in him by the speaker who had caused
him to join the army, slowly fadded
away. The men with whom he as-
sociated did not help him to be on the'
side of the angels, rather they ap-
pealed to what was coarse and debased
isikis nature.
To tell the truth, there was very lit-
tle in Tom's life which tended to en-
noble him. It is true there was a
service for soldiers every Sunday,
morning in ane of the big buildings in;
the town, and while Tom, lover of .
music as he had always been, was!
'somewhat influenced by the singing,
of the men, and while the hymns re-:
minded him of his Sunday -school days,
they did not move him very deeply.:
He paid little or no attention to the,
ministrations of the chaplain. Neith-
er did he avail himself of the many'
meetings Which were held for soldiers,
by the various churches in the town.
Indeed, up to this point Tom was not
the better, but the worse, for joining
the Army.
There was in Tom's company a
young fellow much superior to the
rank and file of the soldiers. He was •
a young Cornish lad, the son of a well -1
to-do father who had sent him to a
good public school, met from thence!
to Lancashire to learn the manufacture
ink business. This young fellow,:
Robert Penrose by name, although be-
longing socially to a different class
from that in which Tom moved, took
a liking to him. He was amused at
his good humor, and seemed to be,
grieved at seeing him drifting with the
dregs of the battalion,
"I say, Pollard," he said to him on,
one occasion, "do you know you are
making an ass of yourself? You
have the makings of a man in you, and ,
Yet you mix with that lot,"
'Why shouldn't I?" said Tom.
"Because you have more brains than!
they have, are better educated, and;
are capable of better things." 1
"Why shouldn't I have a lark while
I can?" replied Tom, "I shall have
o go to the front in a month or two,'
so I will just make hay while the sun
.shines."
"Make hay!" replied Penroee, "make
a fool of yourself, you mean. I hear'
hat years ago you were on the way!
becoming an educated chap, and:
ow everybody's looking upon you as
ne of the drinking fellows."
"It's all very well for von to talk,"
id Tom, "you're a swen." •
"I ani a private just as you are,
'eplied Penrose.
"Ay, but you will be getting a cam-
ission soon, and there's no chance of
hat for nee. I don't belong to your
°rt. Besides, what can I do?
here's no places but the theatrethe
nema show, and the public-h.ouee
hen the dav's work is over.
"That's all nonsense," replied Pen -
350.
"Well, what is there?" asked Tom,
"There's the Y. M. C. A."
"Y. M. C. A.!" laughed Tem, "none
that fee me! I know seine of the
ols.who go to the Y. M. C. A. nteet-
,C.it,.
.ireVhy are they fools?"
"Because they go and hear a lot of
e-jave; they are a lot of ninnies,
it's what they are."
"They don't get hauled over the
is for 'misbehaviour, anyhow."
'No, they haven't got pluck enough.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE AT HOME
Seventh Lesson—Fats and Oils.
Fats and oils form the second class of the cows from which the milk is
of heat and energy giving foods. One obtained,
of their functions is to lubricate the Milk taken directly from the cow
intestinal tract. and permitted to stand for a period of
They produce twice as much energy time has fat globules on the top.
as carbohydrates, and for this reason These globules, which are lighter than
the people in cold climates consume water, rise to the top and form what
from two and one-half to three times is called cream. Cream is wholesome
the amount of fat that persons m
warm climates would consume.
Fats are Classified or separated into
two distinct classes—fixed and volatile
oils. All fats used in the prepara-
tion and cooking of food are called fix-
ed oils. By this term is meant that
little or no evaporation takes place
during the process of heating and
cooking with the fat. Fixed oils,
while they do not evaporate when
heated to a high temperature, become
dissociated or decomposed; that is,
their chemical construction breaks
down or separates after the boiling
point is reached.
Volatile Oils.
Volatile oils, upon reaching the boil-
ing point, are transformed into a gas
or vapor. For instance, if the es-
sential oil of turpentine is heated in a
proper vessel by chemists to 300 de-
grees Fahr., it ceases to be a liquid
and becomes a gas, which, upon cool-
ing, returns to the liquid form without
loss of volume or weight.
This experiment is dnngerous and
should be performed only by labora-
tory experts and chemists. It is
given here only as an example for a
proper explanation.
Oil of cloves, cinnamon, bitter
almonds. lemon, patchouli and berga-
mot are a few of the best known of
the volatile ails.
Composition of Fat.
Fats are called hydrocarbons, com-
posed of carbon united with oxygen
and hydrogen. They contain in their
composition various fatty acids and
glycerine. From decomposed fats the
commercial glycerine is obtained,
Milk Fats,
7E' P C POR
The minute globules of fat that are
suspended in milk give it its clean
while eolor. The proportion of fat in
milk varies from two and eight -tenths
to .eight per cent. This variation is
due to the age, condition and feeding
WESTERN FARMERS
CALL FOR. LABOR
GRAIN RIPENING RAPIDLY
MEN ARE SCARCE.
BUT
Cutting Will Commenee About August
20—Patrietiam Demands Con-
servation of Crop
The gravity of the situation re-
gard to the harvesting of Ontario's
crops serves but to illustrate more
clearly the seriousness of the call of
the farmers of the western prairies
for some 30,000 men from the eastern
provinces to help garner the grain in
Manitoba, Saskatehewan and Alberta
this season,
The Canadian Northern Railway
whose 13,000 miles of line in the three
prairie provinces serve the most pro- •
ductive areas, have already announced
that the help of 25,000 men would be
required to assist the farmers along
its lines this year. Since then repre-
sentatives of the Federal government,'
the three provincial governments and
the leading railways, have conferred
at Winnipeg, and announced that
31,000 harvesters from Ontario and
the. other easter1! provinces would be
welcomed in the west this year.
As everyone knows, agriculture is at
the base of our Canadian prospmity,
and if only for this domestic reason,
the harvest should be assured. But
this year the wheatless millions
throughout the world look to the North
American continent and especially
Canada, for their supply. The North
American, wheat crop this year be-
longs th all the world with the excep-
tion of the Teutons and their allies,
and because of this it is imperative
that the grain yield be conserved.
STOMACH MEDICINES
ARE DANGEROUS
DOCTOES NOM ADVISE MAGNESIA.
Just lure, dangerous it is to IndiscritA-
inately dose the stomach with drugs and
medicines is often not realized until too
• 5.seems s e sun ow a
dose of spine special mixture or take
tablets of soda, pepsin, bismuth, etc., af-
ter meals, and the folly or this drug-
ging is not apparent until, perhaps years
W,:f•T"1.10ve115,11,g
through the stomach walls. Regrets are
and ;palatable for the fat it contains. then una‘ailing. it is in the eall;, stage
,VallellonirelligeelsetioNYsPepsia, heartburns,
Butter is made from cream by the
process of beating or churning, This tee of the ston,achncanS. gFinsenLeti%it
ttacIdclrontents that precaution '4hould be
action causes the little fat globules to
1. Drugs and medicines are unsuit-
able and often dangerous—theY liaNe
break and then to coagulate into a
little or no influence upon the harmful
solid niass, acid, and that is why doctors are dis-
carding them and advising sufferers
Animal Fate.
. mum a s tea e .
point burn or carbonize, thereby show- lice food contents bland and sweet by
Vit.4.,lie,attliie l‘litigug,titcV irtge2..
ing numerous particles (black) in the in.,:lenEl.a
solutely pure anti -acid which can be
fat. This is unfit to use as a cooking ,
readily obtained from anv drug store,
abent for food. I it is absolutely harmless. *is practically
i tasteless and a teaspoonful taken in a
01iVe Oil. 1 little warm or cold water after meals,
, Olive oil is the most palatable and win usually be found Quite sufficient to
twas„tooLnetutLalizit.:,..,,glye possibility
of the food fermenting.
11,..• is1 t without
from Indigestion and stonme.h trould dblie to 1
flavor. The oil is made in four grades.,
The first pressing from the olives is
NO LONGER OBSOLETE.
,called virgin oil. The second grade! —
, is good and the third fair; the fourth, Things That Were Thought Out -of -
is sometimes known as refuse oil. No- ! Date Are Being Revived.
' thing can equal olive oil as a cooking
medium. In spite of the fact that this is a
Cottonseed Oil. , machine and petrol war, it is remark-
' able how old things that seemed °bee-
!Cottonseed oil to -day is a great ha"!lete keep bobbing up. 'Who, for in-
provement upon the oil of a few years! stance, would have thought that the
ago. The processes are now perfect -1 seeming outworn weapon, the grenade,
ed whereby the oil is produced ab-, after which the British Grenadiers
solutely colorless and tasteless. It is' were named, would be one of the sue -
an ideal medium for frying or short- j cesses of the war? Or that the old
ening, and it is much preferred to the,
, bayonet would be much use against
various kinds of animal fat. 1 machine-gun fire? .
Classification of Animal Fats. 1 One must go still further back for
Beef fat is known as suet. Sheep; armor; yet there has been a distinct
, fat is called tallow. Pig or hog fat is 1 movement in favor of a return to it.
' commonly known s: lard. Uncooked! And it is a fact that the steel caps
fats are called suets. Fat that comes, our men have been provided with have
from the cooking of meat, such as, saved tens of thousands of lives,
roasting or boiling, is called drippings.;
Then the sword was supposed to be
Vegetable Fats.
j obsolete, Yet we not only read of a
I These embody oils produced from naval fight where there was boarding,
vegetables, such as corn oil or peanut ; but it was followed by a cutlass fight,
oil. Corn or peanut oils are partmu- : for all the world as in Nelson's Fleet
: larly desirable for cooking purposes in the brave days of old,
1 because they give a delightful flavor , After all, it does not do to scrap
land texture to the cooked food. Other , things too soon. They may come in
1 vegetable oils are bayberry, tallow very serviceable by-and-by, and even
!from the bayberry, also penny tallow , save the situation, And, in spite of
' and oil from different grains. : machines and general frightfulness,
1 the man himself is the most unport-
The Ideal 3Ieal.
Variety in the making of a menu is!
as necessare, as the food itself. One
would soon tire of beef and be unable
to partake of a sufficient amount fur
nutriment if it were the only protein
furnished for thirty days.
Beef, lamb, veal, pork, poultry, fish.
cheese and the legumes give one a
wide scope when planning the daily
balanced menu, Potatoes, riee. hominy
and barley furnish carbohydrates or
starchee.
Fat from the meat, cream in the
I milk and butter eaten upon bread also
, perform their mission in the body and
are necessary for its upkeep in sup-
plying energy and lubrication,
1 Sugar and sugars such as are found
in the fresh and dried fruits are claes-
ed as carbohydrates. Suceulent vege-
.tables and salads supply the necessary
;mineral salte.
1 Therefore a portion of meat or a
zubstitute for it, petatees or their
• equivalent and Lem green vegetable,
.lad, bread aed butter end a dessert
' supply an ideal meal,
idFalse Teeth 11 Peach Popovers.—One egg. tin cep
NOM milk, one cupful of neer, one-
latiraim mailed to Canadian ! feeirth teaspoonful of salt Place in
Co., Imperial Bank Bldee.:7314eR• eestee'l and beat for five minutes
d Queen Sts Toronto !With a o g beater. Then pour
Three Good Recipe:5.
Palo
IF THE TONGUES OF. ¥OURSHOES
COULD SPEAK THEY WOULD SAY
USg
It gives the same nourishment to the leather that the
Skin gets when on the animal's bade.
Black, Tan, Toney Red and Dark Drown. 10e. per tin.
"TAKE CARE OF YOUR SHOES."
ELECTRICAL HOME LIFE.
Idyllic Couditions Which Prevail in
the Homes of Sweden.
It is a generally acknowledged fact
that we have never made proper use
of electricity in this country, In The
World's Work, for July, Mr. James
Armstrong predicts the early dawn
of the British electric age. Ste cites
Sweden as an example of the part
which electricity is playing in the des-
tiny of the world.
The city of Stockholm is al. -Cold a
city in winter as one could wish to
find; but although Sweden produces
not an ounce of coal its citizens are
as warm and snug as if they lived in
tha tropics. Electricity supplies the
solution of the problem. The Stock-
holm householder does not .burn coal
in the grate of his room, and strive to
profit froin a modicum of heat which
is radiated into the room, while most
of it escapes up the chimney. Neither
does he dive into the depths of the
cellar to stoke up the furnace. His
last duty on retiring for the night is
to move a small handle or switch
button if you like—which sendee a cur- 1
rent of electricity circulating through
the wire coil enclosing a cold water
tank. As the water becomes heated, ,
up it is sent coursing through the'
pipes laid throughout the house, and
the constant circulation preserves an
equable temperature from hall to
roof. Upon rising in the morning the 1
householder shuts oft the current —
the water has been heated sufficiently
to last the house during the daytime
when the energy is required for a
thousand and one other purposes for
the benefit of the community.
How is such a system possible? The !
Swedish engineers have been busy.
The torrential rivers and mountain;
streams have been harnessed to turn
huge turbines linked up with ponder-
ous generators which, in their raid
ievolution, turn out current as readily
and as copiously as water flows from I
the tap. The energy thus obtained so
readily is conveyed from the lonely
power -house, maybe for scores of
miles, to the city to be distributed
among the residents, who are called
upon merely to move a small switch
i6nxItellniesadiir homes in order to receive the
full benefits which the "juice" can
Meals can be quickly and conven-
iently cooked, the house brilliantly
lighted, and as much heat as desired
obtained—all by pressing a button.
And the cost, owing to the extensive
scale upon, which current is generated,
is but a fraction of the expense which
would be entailed were coal or any of
the other familiar mediums, gaseous
and solid, employed for such purposes,
Proper Methods of Butterntaking.
Few people trouble themselves
about the reason that creamery butter
is to be preferred to dairy butter, but
by way of introduction to Bulletin No,
53 of the Dairy and Cold Storage
Branch, Ottawa, Dairy Commissioner
Ruddick furnishes an explanation. In-
cidentally he also points out that a
good deal of damage is done to the
moderate oven for thirty-five minutes, peace.
into hot popover pans, Bake in a • ant instrument, both of war and
„
and fill with crushed and sweetened ,
peaches or other fruit, 1 Increasing the fertilityof the soil
Cucumber Salad.—Peel and cut in is the most important problem before
thin slices. one niediumesized cucum-- the majority of farmers to -clay.
ber. Sprinkle with ea": and then put
in a cool place for one hour. Rinse
and e‘over with chopped ice to make it
crisp. Lay on shredded lettuce and
serve with the following: One tea-
spoonful of sugar, one-half teaepoon-
ful of salt. one-half teaspoonful of
mustard, one-half teaspoonful of
paprika. tWo tablespoonfuls of vine-
gar. Blend to a smooth paste and
Stir in six tablespoonfuls of sour
eream. Serve.
Corn Pudding.—One eupfel of corn
scraped. Irani Me one cupful of milk,
eight tablespoonfuls of floer.- Place
in a saucepan and blend the corn milk
rout flour. Bring to a boil end coolc
fee' one minute. Ceel and add OM
teaspoonfel ee salt, one teaspoonful .of
finely rut pareley, uno-quarter tea-
speenful se paprika, one-half tea.
epoonful ref grated 00. f one
egg. Mix thoroughly end fold in the
stiffly beaten white ef c-r,g and one
teaspeonfel ef baking nowder, Potir
into a theerreehly gec,ased baiting dieh
iid 5et in it 't nn el varm Balm
for ewcety-flee minetes Seree from
the dish with ere.= satice•
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SENTINEL DOGS
AT FRENCH FRONT
ANIMALS: WARN SOLDIERS OF
ENEMY RAIDERS.
Their Acute Vision and Hearing Hee
Many Times Contribeted to
Allied Success.
Dog sentinels of the Frenth army
take their regular turn of repose to-
gether with their human •comrades in
the rest camps of the second
whore they are relieved for a time
from the nerve-racking thunder of the
cannon, which is their daily lot in the
front thenchee.
Those dogs, Mostly of the sheep-
dog species, do most valuable services,
at night more especially, in company
with the look -outs who have the task
of keeping an unfailing guard on the
front lines, The dogs have become
quite accustomed to the roar and
bursting of shells, which, when the
animals were first sent to the fighting
lines, caused them to run off with
their tails drooping.
Now when the human sentinels are
posted right in face of the enemy, the
dogs take up their position quite na-
turally beside them and keep a sharp
• watch out over "no man's lande"Pheir
trade by inferior dairy butter. The ears perk up at the slightest rustle in
bulletin for which Mr. George 12,
Barr, Chief of the Dairy Division, is
responsible, in concise terms describes
the whole process of butter making,
the darkness in front, but the dogs
do not bark or growl. Inetead, they
call the attention of the soldier sen-
try by wagging their tails end moving
about nervously. On many occasions
tells the utensils that should be used
the results of experiments with the
and how they should be used, gives atlnieoyoleimaey-epgaitvreoili mnootviicneginabtohuits iltvea•ayi thof-
ily in front,.and have perceived the
separator as regards temperature and
approach of raiding parties of Ger-
variations in speed, deals with the
mans long before their human, come
care of cream in cooling and propel -
()anions had any idea that any hostile
ing for churning and in pasteurieing,I
movement was in progress.
gives expert counsel as to salting and
Faithful Guardians.
working iattittiiga
ctive paper. He also points out the re-; French success in beating off German.
ppoaincItcsintg0 thine apclaviisoahbmiloia
In fact, a considerable part of the
quirements of the law in branding or raids has been dee to the dog-sentin-
marking and supplies practical hints! els' acute vision and hearing. Ono
on care of the utensils. Finally, he battalion of the famous Alpine chas-
tens in terse terms how to get the! seurs, which possess a number of
best results in farm dairy work. Both, these animals, has, owing to their
the bulletin and a blue print of the alertness, been enabled to prepare
plan for a dairy that is given can be j timely defense on six occasions this
had free by application to the Dairy j month against German night attacks.
Comehissihnee atte the •Publicationej When the Germans arrived at the
Branch, Department of Agriculture,' French wire, they found the riflemen
Ottawa. ! ,1 e • • • waiting for them and they were driv-
• en back with heavy losses while the
chasseurs themselves never lost a
man killed.
All the soldiers at the front have
learned to have very strong confidence
in the instinct of their dog compan-
ions, who participate in all their per-
ils and often save them from death
or capture.
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Calm Nerve of the Sergeant-Major of
a Scottish Battalion.
This war story, exemplifying
atolid-
ity and nerve, takes a lot of beating.
"The coolest thing I've seen out
there," said an Argyll and Sutherland
Highlander, "was after the advance
had broken Otto open fighting, Some-
times it happens in open fighting that
• you hold not a trench, but just a line
of shell holes. This time our shell
holes were next to a battalion of Gar-
dens that mostly came from Moray-
shire, my county, and as things were
quiet, except for a bit of shelling, I
just dropped into a shell hole where
the Gordons were.
"There was a sergeant -major in
this hole shaving as calmly as if there
• were no such things as shells flying
around, I said to him, 'Man, sergeant -
major, ye arena feart.' Says he, 'I
left my fear 15y the side of the Lossie.'
That's the river that Elgin stands on,
• and we had a bit of a crack then. He
told me that he had been a bit of an
athlete in his day, and when he gave
me his name I knew him for tt man
famous on the cycle track. We were
talking away about Elgin and Plus-
' carden and Mosstowie, and about peo-
ple thereabout when suddenly a Beebe
turned up at the crater lip. How he
got there Heaven only knows, but eve
were a bit mixed up with the Germans
round us near anti far. This Beebe
had an ugly look as if he meant 2111S
-
chief, but it didn't disturb the ser-
geant -major much. He just laid
down his razor, and picked up his
rifle and bayonet and sauntered out
with soap down one side of his face.
"The Beebe bad e -bomb in his hand
but he dropped it without drawing the
safety pin and he up with his hands.
The sergeant -major rounded him up
into the shell hole, dropping him in by
the scruff of the neck. He made the
Gerinim
"I had to laugh at that. The ser -
while he
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geant-major looked as if it were the
most ordinary occurrence in the day's
work. I had to getsback to my lot
then, and I don't know what happened
to the seegeemt-major and his prison-
er, I hope he came through all right.
Tile Gordons went over the top soon
after and I fear they, made an awful
inees of the Germans. If they are all
of the breed as the sergeant -Indere, I
don't wonder in the least,"
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