Sentence:  Near the end of his service he wrote that when the war was over he was going to <WSD>buy</WSD> two pups , name one of them `` fall-in '' and the other `` close-up '' , and then shoot them both , `` and that will be the end of ' fall-in ' and ' close-up '' ' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction