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hostlery on the road home to Camp. Again the "nut brown ale" beer begins beer ale begins to flow and as fast as mine host can pull draw it up from the the cellars his cellar with the mellow stages come vociferous the recitations of doughty deeds with bayonet accomplished with bayonet, rifle, bomb and pick and shovel; If a and if a few Tommies happen to be in the crowd, if the conversation will inevitably inevitably turns develops into high sounding orations about to the blessings of Unionism & high wages & continues until the discourses is are rudely interrupted, usually by until a corporal who pops puts his head in round the bar door & hints to "Digger," "Joe" & the rest of them that the picquet is going home. Notwithstanding all their harmless conviviality cases of drunkeness are the exception not the rule; because and the alcoholic strenght of the popular beverages has been considerably reduced since the war started commenced.