Here are the quotations for this week (October 1st to 7th)
1. ...Long before I reached the Gully of the Horsemen, I heard the shouts of
the British Infantry crying cheerily: "Hutt, ye beggars! Hutt, ye devils!
Get along! Go forward, there!" Then followed the ringing of rifle-butts and
shrieks of pain. The troops were banging the bare toes of the mob with their
gun-butts - for not a bayonet had been fixed...
2. The clamour might have continued to the dawn had it not been broken by
the noise of a shot without that sent every man feeling for his defenceless
left side. Then there was a scuffle and a yell of pain. "Carbine-stealing
again!" said the adjutant, calmly sinking back in his chair. "This comes of
reducing the guards. I hope the sentries have killed him."
3. Five volleys plunged the files in banked smoke impenetrable to the eye,
and the bullets began to take ground twenty or thirty yards in front of the
firers, as the weight of the bayonet dragged down and to the right arms
wearied with holding the kick of the jolting Martini.
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The sources of last week's quotations (Sept 24th to 30th) were:
1. 'The Brushwood Boy' in 'The Day's Work'
2. 'A Wayside Comedy' in 'Wee Willie Winkie'
3. 'The Phantom Rickshaw', also in 'Wee Willie Winkie'.
Good wishes to all, John R
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