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Updated: May 19, 2025
Captain Pond halted beneath the archway and saluted, beaming with pride and satisfaction and hospitable goodwill. "I am addressing Colonel Taubmann, I believe? Permit me to bid you welcome to Looe, Colonel, and to congratulate you upon this perfect weather. Nature, as one might say, has endued her gayest garb. You have enjoyed a pleasant drive, I hope?"
It is easy to be wise after the event, but at the time other considerations weighed with me as for instance that the men were sober and steady-going, and that I knew their ways, which is a great help in commanding a company." Colonel Taubmann stared and gasped, but held his tongue.
Now, as it happened, a week later the Adjutant-General received a visit from a certain Colonel Taubmann of the Royal Artillery, who was just leaving London for Plymouth, to make a tour of inspection through the West, and report on the state of the coast-defences; and during the interview, as the Adjutant-General glanced down the Colonel's list of batteries, his eye fell on the name 'Looe'; whereby being reminded of the letter, he pulled it out and read it for his visitor's amusement.
The regular forces be terrible on their dignity at times." Colonel Taubmann had, however, made a note of the Die-hards' marksmanship, and attempted to tackle Captain Pond on the subject later in the afternoon albeit gently over a cup of tea provided by the Mayoress. "There is a spirit about your men, Captain " he began. "You take sugar?" interposed Captain Pond. "Thank you: three lumps."
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