Vulgar words in With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back (Page 1)
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These well fagged troops by their fitness, even more than by their numbers, astonished many an onlooker who was by no means a "raw Kaffir"; and one old Dutchman expressed the thought of many minds when he said, "You seem able to turn out soldiers by machinery, _all of the same age_!"
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But that horse behaved like a dull-headed ass, and cared no more for the waving of official caps than for the wild screaming of our steam whistle.