Foe-Farrell

TO ANYONE WHO SUPPOSES THAT HE HAS A WORSE ENEMY THAN HIMSELF.
If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. EMERSON: Brahma .
If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. EMERSON: Brahma .
The best kind of revenge is not to become like him. MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS.
The best kind of revenge is not to become like him. MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS.

Otway told this story in a dug-out which served for officers' mess of a field-battery somewhere near the Aisne: but it has nothing to do with the War. He told it in snatches, night by night, after the manner of Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights Entertainments , and as a rule to an auditory of two. Here is a full list of:
Major Sir Roderick Otway, Bart., M.C., R.F.A.
Major Sir Roderick Otway, Bart., M.C., R.F.A.
Lieut. John Polkinghorne. R.F.A., of the Battery. Sec. Lieut. Samuel Barham, M.C. R.F.A., of the Battery. Sec. Lieut. Percy Yarrell-Smith. R.F.A., of the Battery Sec Lieut. Noel Williams, R.F.A., attached for instruction.
Lieut. John Polkinghorne. R.F.A., of the Battery. Sec. Lieut. Samuel Barham, M.C. R.F.A., of the Battery. Sec. Lieut. Percy Yarrell-Smith. R.F.A., of the Battery Sec Lieut. Noel Williams, R.F.A., attached for instruction.
But military duties usually restricted the audience to two at a time, though there were three on the night when Barham (Sammy) set his C.O. going with a paragraph from an old newspaper. The captain—one McInnes, promoted from the ranks—attended one stance only. He dwelt down at the wagon-lines along with the Veterinary Officer, and brought up the ammunition most nights, vanishing back in the small hours like a ghost before cock-crow.