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The Book of Snobs

CHAPTER X--MILITARY SNOBS
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There is the Lady-killing Military Snob; and more, who need not be named.
But let no man, we repeat, charge MR.

PUNCH with disrespect for the Army in general--that gallant and judicious Army, every man of which, from F.M.the Duke of Wellington, &c., downwards--( with the exception of H.R.H.

Field-Marshal Prince Albert, who, however, can hardly count as a military man,)--reads PUNCH in every quarter of the globe.
Let those civilians who sneer at the acquirements of the army read Sir Harry Smith's account of the Battle of Aliwal.

A noble deed was never told in nobler language.

And you who doubt if chivalry exists, or the age of heroism has passed by, think of Sir Henry Hardinge, with his son, 'dear little Arthur,' riding in front of the lines at Ferozeshah.


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