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Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson. Happy Dispatches
Happy Dispatches
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. SIR ALFRED MILNER
CHAPTER II. WINSTON CHURCHILL
CHAPTER III. LORD ROBERTS, FRENCH, HAIG, AND OTHERS
CHAPTER IV. LORD DERBY
CHAPTER V. A DUTCH CONSUL
CHAPTER VI. GENERAL CHAFFEE
CHAPTER VII "CHINESE" MORRISON
CHAPTER VIII. AN UNKNOWN CELEBRITY
CHAPTER IX. MARIE LLOYD
CHAPTER X. PHIL MAY
CHAPTER XI. RUDYARD KIPLING
CHAPTER XII. CAPTAIN GLOSSOP
CHAPTER XIII. LADY DUDLEY
CHAPTER XIV. CAPTAIN TOWSE, V.C
CHAPTER XV "HELL-FIRE JACK"
CHAPTER XVI. LORD ALLENBY
CHAPTER XVII. LORD ALLENBY (CONTINUED)
THE END
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Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson
Published by Good Press, 2021
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In the Great War there was only one brand of pipe that anyone could smoke without developing an inferiority complex, and the son of the maker of this pipe was appointed subaltern to a crack regiment. His co-subalterns ragged him about the amount of money his father was making out of the army; and being a somewhat simple youth he asked the Colonel whether he ought to resign.
The Colonel said: "I think your father is doing a very silly thing. He is charging only two pounds for these pipes, when these fools would rather give him a fiver than not have one."
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