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The Colonel wheeled round suddenly, and brought us all up to a standstill before a great mirror. "If YOU are like a resuscitated corpse, I'll throw a hundred dollars into the next mud-pond," he observed. "Look at yourself." I looked, at first indifferently, and then with searching scrutiny.
A short distance outside the town I came upon the gun positions, and crossing a field or rather shall I say a mud-pond, for the mud very nearly reached my knees I selected a point of vantage at one side of a hedge which ran at right angles to the gun-pits.
As we ambled our way agreeably out of Bath, Paddy and I employed ourselves in worthy speech. He was not yet a notable horseman, but his Irish adaptability was so great that he was already able to think he would not fall off so long as the horse was old and tired. "Paddy," said I, "how would you like to be an Englishman? Look at their cities. Sure, Skibbereen is a mud-pond to them.
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