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272 " A PLACE CALLED WATEBLOO."
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We wanted had . reached I must a tell little you village about when a meat we was pie on as the I m march ade once and .
thoug you know h some in may an enemy do it 's more country civill , you y than ' re bound others to . mak The e officer , free ,
make g seeing ives them a a good cap littl ital large e oven notes meat , and roun pie provisions , d as to will the serve all houses to us hand , a and good , thinks where while I I . ' , was I So 'll ,
the staring to work life and of I went them jabbering , . lots I , of finished th them ey couldn forei it , and 't gn have popped women made it all one in standing , themselves but it hadn round for 't
women and been sounded clapp in screaming , the and ing oven th up eir near we hands with had a quarter laug all I' hter ll to be of , get jump bound an . hour I ing wish there , and before you 'd dancing be 'd the seen a hundred trumpet about them ,
course of them , a roun half d -baked my pie p , ie 'fore . was we no , was good well , and oat we of left sig it ht , behind for I had , of . Then another time , thinking we should halt some space ,
just the doctor got the ' s doctor was a ' s box and one lait of and the the officers officer ' shirts ' s a double half washed lait , p , p , beau I wonder tiful what cambri sor c t frills of work , —ah I ! should ( looking make at her of it poor now thin but hands I got )
them up very nicely then . I day say you don't know , what a | box " Yes plait I is do , they , I was don told 't wear yesterday them now they . " are quite not the fashio about n
for ladies' dresses . You fold it so , but I ' m sure double " Yes plaits yes . " that's a box plaitand this is double plaiting "
folding her , apron , . , , " And were you obliged to do this , or well did that they th pay did you ?"
was a deal " all Pay that in you soak way , oh ; t- dear but o-o- this o yes -to — o time went paid I ' you m the telling bugle _, you and of off ey , just we must as ; I th got be ey I I I
again ; so I put , ' em into the waggon wet , tub , and all . " I u Not Did you alway alway s : once s ride we in was the on waggons the march ? " and the I I I
, waggon do was in broke think before down . we It could was ni halt ght again , and ?— we had twenty to go mile —how ! and far I I I
was you ill and worn out at the timelike a many others . To give I but you I an said idea to how husband tired I was I co , it uldn was , 't bitter no cold further , freezing and I har took d , I I go
his knapsack my , and put under my head , and lay down , on the I officer ground rode ; I thoug onit ht was it was throug imp h ossible a wood to and go presently a step farther came , but back a I I
to say he'd found , a village , and we roused , up and made shift I
to crawl on to it / ' I
272 " A Place Called Watebloo."
272 " A PLACE CALLED WATEBLOO . _"
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/56/
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