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one failing & that is grammar. Indeed his wanderings into that branch of learning and his head long dives into its teeming pitfalls afford us considerable distraction. An order came out that all horses were to have salt. He interprets thus: "All 'orses 'as to 'ave salt, so all yous men must give your 'orses salt at least three times once a week." And again "There's a brown 'orse on the end of the lines which the picket wants for to be careful of, or 'ell be getting' shook 'ands with." He has a style quite his own
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