This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER 21 The Crusaders Set Out Rupert had hoped to spend the Christmas of 1914 at home, but a delayed leave compelled him to remain in camp, where he had mud instead of mistletoe, and a crowded hut instead of holly. His only carols were those of gin-inspired ex-stokers, who celebrated the day with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER 21 The Crusaders Set Out Rupert had hoped to spend the Christmas of 1914 at home, but a delayed leave compelled him to remain in camp, where he had mud instead of mistletoe, and a crowded hut instead of holly. His only carols were those of gin-inspired ex-stokers, who celebrated the day with enough firewater to wash away their never overstable thoughts of discipline. Some of them got lost in the surrounding woods; some danced half-naked in their smoky shacks. When Rupert ventured into the open he beheld the portly Battalion C.P.O. (who had been drunk since dawn) earnestly conducting his Battalion band in an Irish jig in the middle of the muddy Parade Ground. The inebriated leader was unable to beat time, but he could still dance with abandon. After the holiday Rupert did obtain a week's leave and hurried up to London, where he had luncheon with Eddie and Winston Churchill, spent a happy two hours with Cathleen and forgot the rigors of camp life in an equally happy party at the Ambassadors. He had asked Eddie to assemble amusing people for that party. "It's so important after camp," he wrote to his prospective host at Gray's Inn. "If you only knew how rarely desirable a good joke becomes to one after the mud! As for WOMEN--there one hesitates. Pro is the fact that one aches, after camp, for femininity, the sound of skirts, the twitter of the creatures, even the smell. Against it, the reflection that there aren't many amiable ones, and few fully possessed of a sense of humor." The only shadow on that brief holiday was the death of James Flecker, the fellow poet with whom Rupert had once poled canoes up the river at Grantchester. The blithe-spirited but tubercular Flecker had spent his last years in Swiss sanatoria, valiantly...
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