McGlusky o' the Legion

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A. G. Hales. McGlusky o' the Legion

McGlusky o' the Legion

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CHAPTER I. THE LEGION

CHAPTER II. THE LAMB O’ THE FOREIGN LEGION

CHAPTER III. MCGLUSKY SEES LIFE

CHAPTER IV. MCGLUSKY’S VISION

CHAPTER V. LOVE COMES TO MCGLUSKY

CHAPTER VI. LA BELLE ANGLAISE

CHAPTER VII. THE CHASSEUR D’AFRIQUE

CHAPTER VIII. A SOLDIER AND A MAN

CHAPTER IX. MCGLUSKY THE CONVERTER

CHAPTER X. A TROUBLED TIME

CHAPTER XI. THE LURE OF WOMAN

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A. G. Hales

Published by Good Press, 2021

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“’Struth,” muttered the Ring Rat, as he strolled across the room to a group of his cronies, “Hi’ve ’ad a ’arder fight than that in London fr a gory purse by a thick ’un an’ a ’alf, an’ done my trainin’ lickin’ sardine tins fr the want o’ somethin’ solid tr put inside me. I fought Snowball who beat Carpentier, an’ ’ad one feed between Sunday an’ Wednesday night, an’ that feed was a hegg an’ a rasher ov ’am. The hegg was in the old age department before it came to London from Belgium, an’ the ’en that laid it was entered in the anæmic stakes, an’ was too sick to start; as fr the ’am, it had been on the discard ’eap an’ been buried an’ dug up because it was too strong to stay underground; it was the liveliest bit ov ’am I ever chased; it wouldn’t stay on my plate, but tried to climb up my sleeve an’ crawl down my back.”

The fight between Gaston and the Ring Rat was all over before McGlusky the recruit had come to his senses sufficiently to know whether he was in Africa or Iceland. It was the Ring Rat who linked an arm in his, and led him stumblingly to his bed, on which he fell like a log, and drifted into a hideous semblance of slumber.

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