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The Foreign Policy Of Company 99
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Just then Alderman Foley, who was on his way home and did not know of the runaway, stopped at the door of the engine-house and called to Byrnes:
“Hello there, Jimmy, me boy–how’s the war coming along? Japs still got the bear on the trot, have they?”
“Oh, I don’t know,” said John Byrnes, argumentatively, “them Japs haven’t got any walkover. You wait till Kuropatkin gets a good whack at ’em and they won’t be knee-high to a puddle-ducksky.”