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Methuenin book form under the title of "The Matabele Campaign--1896. " Thekeeping of this diary had its good uses for B. -P. ; in what manner heexplains in the preface, addressed to his mother, --"Firstly, becausethe pleasures of new impressions are doubled if they are shared withsome appreciative friend (and you are always more than appreciative). Secondly, because it has served as a kind of short talk with you everyday. " That is the way in which British soldiers go forth to war. The voyage w...as uneventful. Drill in pyjamas every morning preventedB. -P. From putting on flesh, and that drill, especially "Knees Up!"seems to have been of a pretty severe kind, for it draws fromBaden-Powell the exclamation, "I'd like to kill him who inventedit--but it does us all a power of good. " That is the saying of the oldsoldier. In the barrack-room it is considered the right thing togrumble, or "grouse" as it is called, while one is working hardest. Thus the man with a jack-boot on his left arm and a polishing brush inhis right hand--going like lightning, --the sweat running down his redface, is the man who swears he ain't goin' to bother about hisblooming boots any more, dashed if he is; and after the brushingproceeds to "bone" them violently.
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