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The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: !!!.—SOLD!ERS OF THE K!NG. THE Irish soldier is not unknown in the realm of anecdote and story. Made of good material, Paddy does not hesitate to enlist in the service of his king and country, and, whatever may be his private opinion of the injustices of his native isle, he is loyalty itself when the honour of the Empire is in danger. Of a jovial temperament naturally, he enters into—indeed makes—the free and unrestrained sociality that is associated with barrack-room life, and in times of peace and war alike he has always that reckless joviality which is so characteristic of his country. A young lad on a market day in a provincial town was attending a donkey attached to a cart, and had his arm round the neck of the animal, when two recruiting sergeants passed. One of them, in an endeavour to be funny, said—"What are you hugging your brother so tightly for ? " " 'Cause," was the ready rejoinder, "I was afraid he'd list!" An Irishman hailing from Dublin crossed the Channel and enlisted in a line regiment. One morning, when assembling on parade for drill, Pat happened to fall in next to a London recruit. On the order "Double!" being given by the drill- sergeant, the Cockney was heard to exclaim:—"Oh, hang doubling !" To which Pat immediately replied—"And hang London, ye spalpeen !" A drill-sergeant was inspecting some recruits on parade, and was loud in his threats of what he would do if they ever dared turn out so dirty again. He stood in front of one recruit and swore that he had not cleaned his boots for over a month. Then, walking round to the back of him, he convulsed every one with laughter by shouting—"Private Murphy, sure you'rethe filthiest baste that ever walked. Bedad, turn round and look at the back of your neck; you haven't washed it since ye 'listed." Th...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781459088696
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 226 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459088697
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Height: 150 mm
  • No of Pages: 126
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 195 gr

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