Contemptible (Canus Books by Jade)
Subtitle Soldiers' Tales of the Great War

Author ''Casualty''
Category:War

Language: English

Published 1914

Word count 52,777

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And all the while, never a sound of firing,
never a sight of the red and blue of the French
uniforms. The war might have been two hundred miles away!

Meanwhile Tommy on his marches was discovering
things. Wonder of wonders, this curious people
called "baccy" tabac! "And if yer wants a bit of
bread yer awsks for pain, strewth!" He loved to
hear the French gabble to him in their excited way;
he never thought that reciprocally his talk was just
as funny. The French matches earned unprintable
names. But on the whole he admired sunny France
with its squares of golden corn and vegetables, and
when he passed a painted Crucifix with its cluster
of flowering graves, he would say: "Golly, Bill,
ain't it pretty? We oughter 'ave them at 'ome, yer
know." And of course he kept on saying what he was
going to do with "Kayser Bill."


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