Divers here became reminds cent of the old days.
"He was a youngster at the time when I went into the war. That was the South African Campaign, not the Great European War. I was never the Inst war I. volunteered at the Lime in 914 but the Consul said had fo pay my own passage to En.t-land and I couldn't very well afford that so didn't go and was never call-fed up afterwards. Besides, 1 1ad had plenty in South Africa.
"OMicer? Not I, 1 was one of the grand army of TH. 1. Yes, it was with the Buffs. The West Kents, not the Easts."
No, his brother had not been to war so far as he knew. Mr. Dive had joined the British Army in the South African Campaign when he was just nineteen. His brother is three years his junior.
"My brother went in for farming," seid Mr. Divers, "so I suppose he must have milked a few cows in his time, T imagine. That is, of course, farmers do that sort of thing in Canada,
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