Thursday, October 22, 2009

Clean and steady however like a bridge or a dam and the grasses at its edge were green. "That was worse " Ganelon said "than the ride you took me on when you exiled me. " "I think so too " I said and I spoke to the horses.

Extend the _general knowledge_ of the pupils in regard to those subjects on which they will need information in their progress through life. In regard to each of these particulars I shall speak more particularly. generic elavil Said Jackson. When he was gone the Gran Maestro said to the Colonel "What is the boy? One of those sad Americans?" "Yes " the Colonel said. "And by Jesus Christ we've got a lot of them. Sad self-righteous over-fed and under-trained. If they are under-trained it is my fault. But we've got some good ones too. " "Do you think they would have done Grappa Pasubio and the Basso Piave as we did?" "The good ones yes. Maybe better. But you know in our army they don't even shoot for self-inflicted wounds. " "Jesus " said the Gran Maestro. He and the Colonel both remembered the men who decided that they did not wish to die; not thinking that he who dies on Thursday does not have to die on Friday ! and how one soldier would wrap another's puttee-ed leg in a sandbag so there would be no powder burns and loose off at his friend from as far a distance as he figured he could hit the calf of the leg without hitting bone and then fire twice over the parapet to alibi the shot. They had this knowledge shared between them and it was for this reason and for a true good hatred of all those who profited by war that they had founded the Order. They knew the two of them who loved and respected each other how poor boys who did not want to die would share the contents of a match box full of gonorrheal pus to produce the infection that would keep them from the next murderous frontal attack. They knew about the other boys who put the big ten centime pieces under their arm-pits to produce jaundice. And they knew too about the richer boys who in different cities had paraffin injected under their knee-caps so they would not have to go to the war. They knew how garlic could be used t! o produce certain effects which could absent a man from an attack and they knew all or nearly all of the other tricks; for one had been a sergeant and the other a lieutenant of infantry and they had fought on the three key points Pasubio Grappa and the Piave where it all made sense. They had fought too in the earlier stupid butchery on the Isonzo and the Carso.. dwdw55655755zzxcxczeaegh5566

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