"… Jess? Poor little dog: she was killed by a 4-inch shell in that
Dogger Bank show. I've got an Aberdeen terrier now."
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"… Bit of a change up here, isn't it, after being under double awnings for so long? But the Persian Gulf was getting rather boring … were you invalided too?"
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"… Not they! They won't come out—unless their bloomin' Emperor sends them out to commit a sort of hari-kiri at the end of the war…. That's what makes it so boring up here…."
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"As a matter of fact we caught the Turk who laid most of the mines in the Tigris. He conned us up the river—we put him in a basket and slung him on the bowsprit: just in case he got careless, what? …"
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"… Beer? My dear old lad, the Japs had scoffed all the beer in
Kiao-Chau before I got into the main street…."
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