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CHAPTER IV
19/38

Why on earth should we?
From all I can hear they are a narrow-minded, intolerant set of hypocrites.

I'd just as soon read the stuff some fool of an English newspaper man wrote about "our brother the Boer" as listen to the maudlin sentiment our people talk.

We don't want to help the Boers.

We want to hurt the English.' 'And you think----' said Grealy.
'I think,' went on Finola, 'that we ought to have asked for volunteers to go out and fight, instead of nurses to cocker up the men who are fools enough to get themselves shot.

We'd have got them.' 'You would not,' said Tim.


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