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suede gloves and cane, doing the block, in fact a typical knob, his mother's darling also, and spoilt and selfish and greedy, and unfortunately bringing these qualities into the army with him. His idea of a great man is a man with a big banking a/c, and apparently he has never met a real man in his life. Having worn a pretty uniform in a volunteer regiment he g and memorised some of the drill book, he has got his stripes.
He is the extreme of a type of which we have many and if war can make real men of these, it is indeed a great justifier.
Coming to the men, two main types are represented, the first largely old country people men a large number of which are Scotch who have eim migrated to Australia within the last few years. A certain number of town men, who have occupied knodecent positions in the city with these make a group on the whole steady & reliable and amenable to discipline. On the other hand are