Soldiers Stories and Sailors Yarns (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Soldiers Stories and Sailors Yarns

Some years ago the editor of this volume was struckwith the singular interest of some mess-table stories which came under his hand from the pen of officers belonging to various branches of the service. He had the Opportunity of increasing the number of these gradually, and now the collection is presented to the British Reader with good hope that he will find these life-stories both amusing and interesting. For, in truth, as has been observed, every man is to himself what Plato calls the Great Year. He has his sowing time, and his growing time, his weeding.

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