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Ailsa Paige

CHAPTER XV
16/41

"The head-quarters of the 5th Corps cannot be very far from Paigecourt." At the cavalry lines he offered his hand to Stephen in farewell.
"Good-bye," said the boy.

"I wish you the luck of the 6th Lancers.
Since Hanover Court-House nobody calls 'em 'fresh fish'-- just because they charged a few Johnnies with the lance and took a few prisoners and lost thirty horses." Berkley laughed.

"Thanks; and I wish you the luck of the 5th Zouaves.

They're into everything, I hear, particularly hen-coops and pigpens.

Casson says they live high in the 5th Zouaves.


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