Cowards Suffer Most.
" The temptation to stoop when \inder fire is almost irresistible," said a veteran, talking over the recent hostilities in the Soudan, " and that accounts for so many of the wounds received by raw recruits. When a man happens to be hit in a stooping posture, the chances are that the bullet ploughs right through his body, from end to end. " On the other hand, if he is standing erect, the chances are in favour of the wound being slight. Old soldiers are well aware of this, and while they will drop flat, they never stoop. After a soldier has been in a few engagements he learns such tricks, and as far as tho rest of it is concerned, he becomes simply a fatalist. " There is nothing strange about it, for almost all his experiences appear to lend colour to that doctrine. For instance, he never dodges, because he has seen men dodge and get killed when it really seemed as if they had reached for the bullet. In fact, the strangest things are continually happening, all apparently the pure whim of chance."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2375, 7 September 1899, Page 62
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Cowards Suffer Most.
Otago Witness, Issue 2375, 7 September 1899, Page 62
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