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Greenmantle

CHAPTER TEN
16/29

I'll fire this stuff, and I reckon they'll be picking up the bits of you and your regiment off the Gallipoli Peninsula.' He had put up a bluff--a poor one--and I had called it.

He saw I meant what I said, and became silken.
'Good-bye, Sir,' he said.

'You have had a fair chance and rejected it.
We shall meet again soon, and you will be sorry for your insolence.' He strutted away and it was all I could do to keep from running after him.

I wanted to lay him over my knee and spank him.
We got safely to Chataldja, and were received by von Oesterzee like long-lost brothers.

He was the regular gunner-officer, not thinking about anything except his guns and shells.


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