Draper, who commanded the division, told him it was unsoldier-like.

'Unsoldier-like be demned,' he said.
Ged, they nearly court-martialled the ould man for it.

He got the V.C.
at the Quarries, and was killed at the Redan." A slatternly, slipshod girl answered the bell, and having received her orders and the united available funds of the two comrades, speedily returned with a brace of frothing pint pots.

The major ruminated silently over his cigarette for some time, on some unpleasant subject, apparently, for his face was stem and his brows knitted.

At last he broke out with an oath.
"Be George! Baumser, I can't stand that young fellow Girdlestone.
I'll have to chuck him up.