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Updated: June 20, 2025

Cripplestraw, I like being in the yeomanry cavalry; but I wish I hadn't been in the ranks; I wish I had been only the surgeon, to stay in the rear while the bodies are brought back to him I mean, I should have thrown my heart at such a time as this more into the labour of restoring wounded men and joining their shattered limbs together u-u-ugh! more than I can into causing the wounds I am too humane, Cripplestraw, for the ranks!

Thomas Hardy - The Trumpet-Major