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"That's only the basic principle of business competition for the good of the consuming public. Competition is the demand, the right of the people," declared Daunt. "I'm a bit skeptical still basing my opinion on your own statements as to common-stock dividends as to the price per kilowatt after competitors shall have been sandbagged according to that legislative measure," drawled the mayor.
I was still sitting in an angle of a wall, trussed like a fowl, but I was awake. "Is that you, Professor?" "No more hooligan clubs, Wigan." "What happened?" "I remember turning a corner," Quarles answered, "and I woke up here. We were sandbagged, or something of the kind, and serves us right. If we wanted to follow any one we ought to have followed the man and woman.
The Hun what was left of him after an intensive bombardment of twenty-four hours had betaken himself back over the ridge, via the remnants of his two new communication trenches, to his original front line. The two communication trenches themselves were blocked and sandbagged, and were being heavily supervised by a pair of British machine-guns.
I had a vague idea that all American women wore red flannel shirts and carried bowie knives and that I might be sandbagged in the street! From somewhere or other I had derived an impression that New York was an ugly, noisy place. Ugly! When I first saw that marvelous harbor I nearly cried it was so beautiful.
A big minnenwerfer came into play next, and because it could throw a murderous-sized bomb from far behind the German trench it was too much for the British trench-mortar to tackle. An Artillery Observing Officer spent a perilous hour or two amongst the shrapnel and snipers' bullets on top of the sandbagged wall, until he had located the minnenwerfer.
"Do you see that fellow in the gray suit I think he has been sleeping in it at the table on your right? Look at the stodgy face. See the glassy eye. If that man sandbagged your Freddie and tied him up somewhere, and turned up at the church instead of him, can you honestly tell me you would know the difference?
A captain in the next traverse climbed upon the sandbagged parapet to investigate a brave but foolhardly deed "Crack" went a bullet and he tumbled back into the trench with a hole through his stomach and died a few minutes later.
This is the last weak spot there is a half-closed gap, which could be rushed by bodies of men coming in from the Ch'ien Men Gate and ordered to attack us. This new angle of native houses are being sandbagged and loopholed. Both sides, defenders and attacking forces, are now as ready as possible. What is going to happen? I am mightily tired of speculating and of writing. 4th August, 1900.
When morning came, it was discovered that they had burnt away the bridge itself, and a new bridge had to be constructed. An armoured train was improvised from such trucks as were available, the sides being sandbagged and a Lewis gun mounted in front. With this, the railway line was patrolled towards Jerusalem for some miles, until destroyed bridges made further progress impossible.
Mr Alexander, one of the Overlanders of '62, tells how 'Begbie's decisions may not have been good law, but they were first-class justice. His 'doctrine was that if a man were killed, some one had to be hanged for it; and the effect was salutary. A man had been sandbagged in a Victoria saloon and thrown out to die. His companion in the saloon was arrested and tried.
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