an can take away the taste that o my time past i the solid put me through wan the tin between and lights out blew the oft a wiped me moustache the back me hand an slept on ut all as quiet as a little child but ut s over � ut s over an come back to me not though i prayed for a week sundays was there any wan in the ould to touch ril that same was turned out for i met him woman that was not a witch was worth the in those days an man was my dearest or � i had stripped to him an we knew which was the the tu i was ril i not ha changed the colonel � no nor yet the in chief i be a there was i not be mother look at me am i now we was in a big � tis no manner use names for ut might give the � an i was the the earth to my own mind an wan or tu women thought the same small blame to we had lain there a year the colour e ny an took a wife that was lady to some big lady in the station she s dead now is � died in child bed at or ut may ha been � seven � nine years gone an he married but she was a pretty woman her to society she had eyes like the brown a s wing the sun catches ut an a waist no thicker than my arm an a little button the solid a mouth i ha gone through all asia bay to get the kiss an her hair was as long as the tail the colonel s � foi ve me that in the same with � but twas all gold an time was a lock ut was more than di to me there was pretty woman yet an i ve had a few open the door to twas in the chapel i saw her first me oi rolling round as usual to see was to be seen you re too good for my love thinks i to but that s a mistake i can put straight or my name is not now take my for ut you there an an out the married quarters � as i did not no good comes ut an there s always the chance your bein found your face in the dirt a long in the back your head an your hands playing the on the tread another man s twas so we found o he that killed six years gone when he to his death his hair o his teeth out the married quarters i say as i did not tis tis dangerous an tis else that s bad but � o my tis while ut lasts i was always about there i was off duty an wasn t but a sweet word did i get from tis the the i to an gave my cap another cock on my head an straightened my back � twas the back a major in the solid those days � an oflf as tho i did not care all the women in the married quarters i was � most are fm � that no woman born woman stand against me i up me little finger i had reason for that way � till i met time an i was in the dusk a man go past me as quiet as a cat that s thinks i for i am or i should be the only man in these parts now what can be up to thin i called myself a for such things but i thought all the same an that mark you is the way a man wan i said � mrs no to you who is that ril man � i had seen the though i get sight his face � w io is that ril man that comes in always i m goin away mother god i she as white as my belt have you seen him too seen him i i have did ye want me not to see him for � we were in the outside the s quarters � you d tell me to shut me eyes i m mistaken he s come now an sure enough the ril man was to us his head down as though he was ashamed good night mrs i very cool tis not for me to interfere your a but you might manage some things more i m off to i the solid i turned on my heel an away i give that man a that him about the married quarters for a month an a week i had not ten paces before was on to my arm an i feel that she was all over stay me she you re flesh an blood at the least � are ye not i m all that i an my anger away in a flash will i want to be asked twice that i slipped my arm round her waist for i fancied she had at discretion an the honours war were mine is this she up on the tips her dear little toes the mother s milk not on your mouth let go she did ye not say just now that i was flesh and blood i i have not changed since i an i my arm where ut was your arms to she an her eyes sure tis only human nature i an i my arm where ut was nature or no nature says she you take your arm away or i ll tell an he ll alter the nature your head d you take me for she a woman i the prettiest in a wife she the in that i dropped my arm fell back tu paces an saluted for i saw that 