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John Brown: Confessions of a New Army Cadet

R. W. Campbell

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I was marched out. As the orderly-room closed I heard the ‘Old Man’ burst into laughter, and say to the adjutant, ‘By Jove! we put the wind up that young bounder.’

‘Yes, sir,’ replied the adjutant.

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CHAPTER IV.

WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT.

No doubt our military dons believed that after drill we swotted Haking, Needham, Infantry Training, and Stonewall Jackson, not forgetting Notes from the Front, and all the pamphlets on soldiers’ bunions, number nine pills, &c. We certainly did swot—when they were looking or moving around. But a cadet’s day is a strenuous day. From 6 A.M. to 4 P.M. running, drilling, lectures, and physical jerks feed up the best of men, and we were glad to leave shop and gather together round the fire. There we unbared our souls, and made no bones about it. Army life is an open life, a much manlier life than even the . . . Read More