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Show Willing to Pay for Rammer. When the British square at the battle bat-tle of Abu Klea, in the Nubian des- ' ert, was penetrated by the dervishes, one of them attempted to spear a gunner gun-ner who was in the act of ramming home a charge. The Briton brained the Sudanese, but the rammer head split on the man's hard skull. Next day the gunner was sent for. Mistaking the reason, and knowing from experience experi-ence that soldiers are charged for government property which they break, he led off with: "Please, sir, I'm very sorry I broke the rammer, but I never thought the fellow's head could be so hard. I'll pay for the rammer so as to hear no more of the case." |