"Roight, we'll share it out by-and-by."
"Nae fear. Hauf it the noo."
"Why?"
"A bird in the haun's worth twa in the bush."
"That's what the ould judge said when he gave me thirty days for stealin' Mike Docherty's pigs," concluded Pat, as he ruefully parted with half of his bag of gold.
Spud also got his D.C.M.
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CHAPTER XIX.
AN IMPERIAL AFFAIR.
"I see Sergeant Tamson is in divisional orders to-day," said Colonel Corkleg to Lieutenant Greens during breakfast in the dug-out.
"What for, sir?"