The Dough Boys
Patrick Macgill
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Feb. 1, 2018)
Excerpt from The Dough BoysThe young soldier was white with ah ger. His lips twitched and his eyes flashed fire. The two other men, leaning against the wall of the kitchen, had been giving tongue in reply to the youngster previously, but now they were si lent as if waiting for the young man's rage to wear itself out. And the affair rose from a. Very simple matter, the spilling of a plate of soup on the floor by the youngster and the eldest man in the kitchen threatening to make the boy lick up the soup from the ground. The boy replied to the good-humoured jest With an oath and it amused the elder man, the head-cook at the bat talion headquarters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.