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If you hold an ox by the horn and hit him by the bottom he runs round and round. He never goes anywhere. So, too, this war goes round and round. You know that, Generaal! "'Quite right, Adrian, says the General; 'but you must believe your Bible. "'Hooh! says Adrian, and reaches for the whisky.
It takes time, he says, 'but I flatter myself that any men who have worked under me are at least grounded in the rudiments of their profession. Adrian, he says, 'was there anything wrong with the men who upset Van Bester's applecart last month when he was trying to cross the line to join Piper with those horses he'd stole from Gabbitas? "'No, Generaal, says Van Zyl.
Eighteen minutes later Duncan in the Venerable closed similarly to leeward of the Staten Generaal, and afterward the Vrijheid, in the Dutch van. The two leaders were soon supported though there was straggling on both sides; and the battle that ensued was the bloodiest and fiercest of this period of the war.
'But you are so slow, Generaal. Why are you so slow? For a month, he says, 'you do so well and strong that we say we shall hands-up and come back to our farms. Then you send to England and make us a present of two three six hundred young men, with rifles and wagons and rum and tobacco, and such a great lot of cartridges, that our young men put up their tails and start all over again.
"'I beg your pardon, Commandant, says the General; and the rest of the crowd sort of cooed over Adrian. "'Excoose, says Adrian. 'It was all right. They were good men those, but it is just what I say. Some are so dam good we want to hands-up, and some are so dam bad, we say, "Take the Vierkleur into Cape Town." It is not upright of you, Generaal. It is not upright of you at all.
There's two Dutch mail boats running to Manila from Sydney the Atjeh and the Generaal Pel. In six months' time, after Atkins and Carr get to Sydney, the Motutapu affair will be forgotten, and you and your family can settle down under a new name in some other part of the world. That is what I mean to do, anyway."
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