More Useful Alive Than Dead
HEN my grandfather had left the army, Lewis, ; his soldier-servant, had followed his master into private life as cook, and remained till his death the crotchety and despotic manager of the household. He must have been a lineal descendant of Shakespeare’s soldiery, in the great tradition of
Pistol, Nym, and Bardolph. He had fought as a matter of routine, without enthusiasm and without illusions. A live coward was in his eyes much happier than a dead hero, Forlorn hopes and tight corners didn’t appeal to him, and while others were striking for home and country, Lewis struck for home. With simple pride he used to tell the tale of how, when a particularly
hot bit of fighting was over, his comrades, missing him, remarked, " Poor old Corporal Lewis, gorn at last." " But," he would continue with brazen relish, "when they gets back to camp, there was old Corporal Lewis a-cookin’ the dinner!"-(" Tales of a Grandfather." Miss Cecil Hull, 1YA, February 9.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 5
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167More Useful Alive Than Dead New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 5
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