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They influenced enormously troops brigaded with them, as far as externals were concerned. It was the habit of the Australians to cut off the sleeves of their graybacks at the shoulder, thus making the shirt look like a loose kind of gymnasium vest. We copied this, and it did certainly make for comfort and freedom of movement.
And then the Graybacks swarmed up out of shelters and dug-outs, literally in hundreds, and held up their hands, whining "Mercy, kamarad." We took prisoners by platoons. Blofeld grabbed me and turned over a gang of thirty to me. We searched them rapidly, cut their suspenders and belts, and I started to the rear with them. They seemed glad to go. So was I.
The fact stood. For years he had been shut away from men, a leprous thing labeled "Unclean!" He had dwelt in a place of furtive whisperings, of sinister sounds. His nostrils had inhaled the odor of musty clothes and steamed food. His fingers had touched moisture sweating through the walls, and in his small dark cell he had hunted graybacks.
It is a lamp, my dear reader, with a transparent shade; and on this shade is written, for the information of the graybacks: "While yet the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest rebel may return." Lee's lines faced Grant's, following the blue cordon across the rivers, around Petersburg, toward the Southside railroad.
SI WOKE up early the next morning with a savage exclamation. "I declare, I'm all on fire," he said. "Some thing's just eating me up. I believe I've got a million graybacks on me." "Same here, Si," said Shorty. "Never knowed 'em to be so bad. Seem to 've just got in from a march, and are chawin' three days' rations out o' me every minute.
The commander is glad, because electric power must be used when the vessel is moving under water and there must be no waste of this essential element. So the submarine proceeds on her way, wallowing and tumbling through the heavy graybacks of the North Sea. At length after fifty-four hours the necessity of sleep becomes apparent.
They ain't near so lively arter you strafe 'em with this 'ere powder." I remembered Shorty's advice later when I became a reluctant host to a prolific colony of graybacks. For nearly six months I was never without a box of Keatings, and I was never without the need for it. Barbed wire had a new and terrible significance for me from the first day which we spent in the trenches.
I had no desire, in that frigid atmosphere, to strip down to what Artemus Ward called "the skanderlous costoom of the Greek Slave;" so I pulled out of my pocket my little store of wealth ten dollars in greenbacks, sixty dollars in Confederate graybacks and displayed it as Turner came up with, "There's all I have, sir." Turner pocketed it without a word, and did not search me.
"The better the day the better the deed," remarked Shorty, as he and Si stood around the fire, clothed in nothing but their soldierly character, and satisfiedly poked their clothes down in the scalding water. "Thousands must die that one may be free from graybacks, fleas, and ticks.
I tell you that as sure as there is a God who reigns and judges in Israel, before the Spring breezes stir the tops of these blasted old pines their Confederacy and all the lousy graybacks who support it will be so deep in hell that nothing but a search warrant from the throne of God Almighty can ever find it again. And the glorious old Stars and Stripes " Here we began cheering tremendously.
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