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regiment taking over from us.
‘That’s bad,’ I said.
‘It’s a disgrace. See everything there is burned before you leave camp.’ ‘Very good, sir. Sergeant-major, send over to the carrier-platoon and tell Captain Brown that the C.O. wants this ditch cleared up.’
I wondered whether the colonel would take this rebuff; so did he. He stood a moment irresolutely prodding the muck in the ditch, then he turned on his heel and strode away. ‘You shouldn’t do it, sir, ‘ said the sergeant-major, who had been my guide and prop since I joined the company. ‘You shouldn’t really.’
‘That wasn’t our rubbish.’
‘Maybe not, sir, but you know how it is. If you get on the wrong side of senior officers they take it out of you other ways.’
As we marched past the madhouse, two or three elderly inmates gibbered
Monday, September 29, 2008
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