Leisure-Moments in the Camp and in the Guard-Room (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Leisure-Moments in the Camp and in the Guard-Room

I have in general translated keely, and for this reason I do not expect to have many of; the learned by profession, or of the very igno rant for my readers; it would be too great a condescension on the part of the former, and' my best efforts to make myself intelligible to the latter would prove unavailing; but there is a third class, for which it is well worth wri ting - I. Allude to that respectable order in society, of which the members are anxious for information, without at all times possessing the facility of acquiring it.

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