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a poor unfortunate whose mind you imagine is inflamed by those words "Yours not to reason why" etc.

It needs a man that will not close his eyes and throw a stone to wake the man who sleeps on his post 20 yards from the enemy. In such cases his heart must be of stone. With such real Non Coms the Imperial army is blessed.

For courage tho it needs no saying – Our army is second to none – Why should we be different – less (or more) coragious than our brothers from The Isles. Tales daily appearing in our papers – of Unparalled bravery – Never to be forgotten heroism Dash – Daring and Unconquerable spirit casts a cloud veil of unimportance over such historic work as Poitiers, Agincourt, Cressy or of Mons.

Numerous Accounts, gaining great prominence in the columns of our daily: tell of how I (the great King I am) killed seventeen Turks –

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