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The Ivory Trail

CHAPTER SEVEN
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"Ich heiess Schubert-Feldwebel Hans Schubert." "Wass wollen Sie ?" Will asked.

He was the only one of us who knew German well.
But Schubert, it seemed, knew English and was glad to show it off.
"You make fine music! Ach! Up at the D.O.A.G.

very near here we Unteroffitzieren spend the evening, all very fond of singing, yet without music at all.

Will you not come and play with us ?" "I only know French and English tunes!" lied Fred.
"Ach! I do not believe it! Kommen Sie! There is beer at the D.O.A.G .-- champagne--brandy--whisky--rum-- ?" "I'm going, then, for one!" announced Brown, getting up immediately.
"Cigars--cigarettes--tobacco," the sergeant-major continued.

"There is no closing time." He saw that the line of argument was not tempting, and changed his tactics.


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