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[Illustration: _Irritable Plus 4 (whose opponent is standing too close
behind him)._ "NOW THEN, SIR, WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THERE?"
_Mild 18._ "ONLY GETTING READY TO CLAP."]
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From an account of a football match by "Brigadier" in _The Daily
Record_:--
"Cresswell sustained an injury, and took no risks, but R. M. Morton
would have risked going at a battalion of dragoons with bayonets
drawn."
There must be moments in these peaceful journalistic days of his
retirement when that grand old soldier, "Brigadier," wishes he were once
more charging at the head of his dragoons, with a drawn bayonet in his
hand.
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