Soldiers ThreeH.M. Caldwell, 1899 - 301 pages |
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Soldiers Three: A Collection of Stories Setting Forth Certain Passages in ... Rudyard Kipling No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 149 - Circle ought not to stand up for it — puttin' everybody out." That was what Miss McKenna said, and the Sergeant who was my vis-A-vis looked the same thing. I was afraid of Miss McKenna. She was six feet high, all yellow freckles and red hair, and was simply clad in white satin shoes, a pink muslin dress, an applegreen stuff sash, and black silk gloves, with yellow roses in her hair. Wherefore I fled from Miss McKenna and sought my friend Private Mulvaney, who was at the cant — refreshmenttable....