Peter Taylor
Stories from across the globe
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I didn't see Peg for two years, and while I was away, we got engaged.
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I can't say we were over worked, it’s just as well we weren’t because we'd have been in trouble.
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I knew nothing about it at all. Mind you, I had drunk quite a lot that night.
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It would appear that we haven’t learned a lot.
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He was bung full of his own importance
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He described what he thought of us, very crudely. Fancy picking on a general…
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Some of the lads who couldn't swim, they were just picked up and thrown anyway, it was a horrible morning.
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We were the sorriest set of recruits I could ever remember.
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“Gentlemen", he said, "I was about to say Welcome to Jerusalem, but they've done it for me."
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He spits, reigns in his camel and heads off across the minefield.
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The fear, cold unadulterated fear.