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Railhead was at Deir el Belah, about eight miles short of Gaza, and here troops and an army of Egyptian labourers were working night and day, week in week out, off-loading trucks with a speed that enabled the maximum amount of service to be got out of rolling stock. There were large depôts down the line too.
It was part of her way to spare Rosebud as much as she could, and the excuse served her now. While Rosebud was receiving a visit from Wanaha at the back of the house, the men-folk, engaged in off-loading pine logs from a wagon, were receiving visitors at the front of it. The Indian Agent and Mr. Hargreaves had driven up in a buckboard.
The other nodded slowly, his eyes twinkling. "Bully, but you'll need a wagon to drive you out when you're getting married," he said. "That's how I was thinking. Guess I'll drive you out in mine, eh?" "But you're going at sun-up," cried Eve, in dismay. "We we can't get married so soon." "Guess I'll wait over," Peter answered easily. "It just means off-loading and then loading up again.
For off-loading really heavy equipment within the compound a metre-gauge spur line branched off from the main line linking Turkey with Basra.
It appeared that for the whole, infernal day he had had to watch the off-loading of motor-spares, that he had had no lunch, and that he could not get away for a day next week if he tried. "It isn't everyone can get a day off whenever he wants to, padre," he said. "In the next war I shall be ..." Peter turned hard on his heel, and left him complaining to the derricks. He was now all but cornered.
Nobody helped Jael Higg from her camel, for she jumped down like an acrobat and stood staring about her at Ali Baba's gang, and being stared at as they went about the business of off-loading the complaining beasts. I saw Ayisha get out of the shibriyah, face around slowly, and meet Jael's eyes.
The block was overcome by off-loading goods at the Vaal River and transporting them to Johannesburg by mule and ox waggons. Mr. Kruger and his Hollander friends were almost beaten when the President played his last card.
Of course, it depends a bit on the O.C., and in the Labour Corps especially it isn't usually possible. It isn't like the line, old fellow, and even the line isn't what we knew it. You can't have parade services in trenches, and you can't have them much when the men are off-loading bully beef or mending aeroplanes and that sort of thing. This war's a big proposition, and it's got to go on. Why?
Grim led the way straight to that amazing temple, and we invaded it, camels and all, off-loading the camels inside in a hurry and then driving them out again to lie down in the wide porch between the columns and the temple wall. The porch was so vast that even all our string of camels did not crowd it.
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