I sat by the bedside of a wounded British sergeant and heard him discourse about Germans. There was no denying they were very brave, and came on all right with their officers behind them, but they "didn't know the business." The British soldier was the man who "knew the business." There—followed a vivid and rapid sketch of the contrast between "Tommy" and "Hans" whiely far beyond my power to record; but imagine Tommy, smart, upright, cheerful, resourceful, "looking as a soldier should." up against Hans, portly, Jooking, stooping," spectacled, "like a man from a shop who ain't at on uniform," and you have the gist of it. "Fact is," said the sergeant, summing it all up, "they ain't @ military people like we are."
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