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The moment we let him go he began to buck and the unlucky- 

 handles to beat a devil's tattoo upon the body of the tin box. ■ He 

 made off into the troop of cargoed horses, and the noise he brought 

 with him proved too much for their nerves. They scrambled up 

 to their feet and four of them broke away in different directions. 

 Five minutes later we surveyed once more a scene of scattered 

 cartridges, flour, oatmeal, sacks of beans, clothes, skins bumped 

 out with tinned provisions, and I don't know what else. They lay 

 in confusion among the grass and bushes in the valley, and up 

 and down the slopes of the conical mud hills. The Germans were 

 reduced to inarticulate oaths, and the Welshmen looked out of 

 heart. 



But to camp upon a failure is the worst of business and of 

 policy, and so the men were laughed into a good humour, and we 

 all went at it once more, the ammunition and our other goods were 

 collected and the cargoes were fixed up yet again. 



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