At Suvla Bay; being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great w by John Hargrave
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4. At last he lifts up the cloth and shows you the green mango-tree growing on the piece of glass. "He covers it again--plays. Lifts the cloth, shows you the mango tree in leaf. Covers it again--plays again. Takes away the cloth, and shows you the mango-tree in fruit, real fruit; but they never let you have the fruit for love or money. Rather than let any one have it, they pluck it and squash it between their fingers." CHAPTER XXIII THE WISDOM OF FATHER S---- One day, while I was making some sketch- book drawings of bursting shells down in the old water-course, the Roman Catholic padre came along. "Sketching, Hargrave?" "Yes, sir." And then: "I suppose you're Church of England, aren't you?" |
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