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UNCLE NED'S TALES.
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Though we lost some goodly soldiers, and old Picton lost a horse.
But there I've said enough: your mother's warning finger shook,—
Mind, never be a soldier, boy!—now let me have a smoke."


Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son.