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“Fit to do anything,” said the Second-in-Command enthusiastically. “But it seems to me they’re a thought too young and tender for the work in hand. It’s bitter cold up at the Front now.” “They’re sound enough,” said the Colonel. “We must take our chance of sick casualties.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The complete works of Rudyard Kipling