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... amusing , and possibly interesting , little book about my early days in the Service . I therefore put together a small work , ' A Subaltern in the Royals , ' and had intended publishing it . But last winter one of the most renowned ...
... amusing , and possibly interesting , little book about my early days in the Service . I therefore put together a small work , ' A Subaltern in the Royals , ' and had intended publishing it . But last winter one of the most renowned ...
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... amusing to the other boys , to find himself on a bright autumn afternoon , with the swallows darting past the windows , shut up in a dreary schoolroom , was too trying ; and when his hereditary Highland instincts took his mind back to ...
... amusing to the other boys , to find himself on a bright autumn afternoon , with the swallows darting past the windows , shut up in a dreary schoolroom , was too trying ; and when his hereditary Highland instincts took his mind back to ...
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... amusing , such as exercising us in throwing hand - grenades with blowing charges . Boy- like , we delighted in getting him into a wild state of excitement by being very slow in throwing the grenade after lighting the fuse . Mathematics ...
... amusing , such as exercising us in throwing hand - grenades with blowing charges . Boy- like , we delighted in getting him into a wild state of excitement by being very slow in throwing the grenade after lighting the fuse . Mathematics ...
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... amused , saying , " Do you mean to say you did not hear the noise last night when the main shaft broke and the engines were racing with the most horrible crashing , and broken machinery flying about ? Why , nearly all the men rushed on ...
... amused , saying , " Do you mean to say you did not hear the noise last night when the main shaft broke and the engines were racing with the most horrible crashing , and broken machinery flying about ? Why , nearly all the men rushed on ...
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... amusing little doctor nearly suffered sudden death at the hands of his hut companion , who had saved up his week's ration of rum for the entertainment of some friends . On going to his rum - jar he was horrified to find it full of dead ...
... amusing little doctor nearly suffered sudden death at the hands of his hut companion , who had saved up his week's ration of rum for the entertainment of some friends . On going to his rum - jar he was horrified to find it full of dead ...
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