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Excerpt from An Author in the Territorials: Experiences Humorous and Otherwise
The words were shouted by a butcher boy to another butcher boy on the Opposite side of the street, as the door of the house closed behind my six feet one inch figure, clad for the first time in the kharki uniform Of the Royal Sussex Regiment.
The typical butcher boy is a sort of Blue Uhlan, waging guerilla warfare against us all. He charges us Cossack-wise in his cart, as we try to cross a road, or swoops down upon us, round a street corner, with the suddenness and the unexpectedness of a pouncing hawk. Afoot, if he be not pelting us with a catapult.
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