Been dead - sat there until someone came along I guess even if it meant sitting there all day but it wasn't and the motor started on the first crank..

Knobnose and even in the light of subsequent events I fear I cannot speak very well of him. He was an idle and careless young rascal and only that very morning I had to tell Pharaoh to give him a beating for letting the oxen stray which Pharaoh did with the greatest gusto although he was by way of being very fond of Jim-Jim. Indeed I saw him consoling Jim-Jim afterwards.
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Is a man who learnt his business before 1914 and that the business of war has been absolutely revolutionised since 1914; the military expert is a man trained to think of war as essentially an affair of cavalry infantry in formation and field guns whereas cavalry is entirely obsolete infantry no longer fights in formation and the methods of gunnery have been entirely changed. The military man I observe still runs about the world in spurs he travels in trains in spurs he walks in spurs he thinks in terms of spurs. He has still to discover that it is about as ridiculous as if he were to carry a crossbow. I take it these spurs are only the outward and visible sign of an inward obsolescence. The disposition of the military "expert" is still to think too little of machinery and to demand too much of the.
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