A BARRACK-ROOM STORY.
When the square at Ahu Klea was penetrated by the Dervishes, one of them attempted to spear a gunner who was in the act of ramming home a charge, The Briton brained the Sudanee, but the rammer-head split on tho man's hard scull. Next day the gunner was sent for: mistaking the reason, and knowing from experience that soldiers are charged for Government property which they break, he led off: "'Please, sir, I'm sorry I broke the rammer,'but I never thought the nigger's head could be so hard. I'll pay for the rammer so as to hear no more of the case,"
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North Otago Times, 3 September 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)
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105A BARRACK-ROOM STORY. North Otago Times, 3 September 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)
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