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  • You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.

    Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.418, Wordsworth Editions