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Everywhere in the latter the visitors were struck with the way in which poverty went with glittering, fashionable profusion. On a writing-table lay a volume of Shakespeare, and, on an occasional table, a carved ivory back-scratcher. The hostess, too, was elegantly and fashionably attired, and devoted her whole conversation to the town and the local theatre.
However, to-day the pickless squad are lined up a short distance away by the relentless Captain Wagstaffe, and informed "You are under fire from that wood. Dig yourselves in!" Digging oneself in is another highly unpopular fatigue. First of all you produce your portable entrenching-tool it looks like a combination of a modern tack-hammer and a medieval back-scratcher and fit it to its haft.
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