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As it his, I'm on'y a Tommy a Bloomin', Gawd-forsaken, Beer-swillin' Tommy. 'Rest on your harms 'versed, Stan' at hease; 'Shun. 'Verse harms. Right an' lef tarrn. Slow march. 'Alt front. Rest on your harms 'versed. With blank-cartridge load. An' that's the end o' me." He was quoting fragments from Funeral Parties' Orders. "Stop ut!" shouted Mulvaney.
I was sent on piquet on the evening of the 17th, to watch a portion of the plain before us; and, soon after sunrise on the following morning, a cannonade commenced, behind a hill, to my right; and, though the combatants were not visible, it was evident that they were not dealing in blank-cartridge, as mine happened to be the pitching-post of all the enemy's round shot.
But the nation at large, and the governing powers, certainly were not in any great fright. Nay, rather they erred, if at all, on the side of tranquillity and self-confidence; as one who has been fired at with blank-cartridge forgets that the click of the trigger will not tell him when the bullet has been dropped in.
For the heroic times of copious bleeding and blistering had not yet departed, still less the times of thorough-going theory, when disease in general was called by some bad name, and treated accordingly without shilly-shally as if, for example, it were to be called insurrection, which must not be fired on with blank-cartridge, but have its blood drawn at once.
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