And Brule
Is A Very Good Omen For Men That Are Battered About And Given To
Despairing, Since It Is
Only called Brule on account of its having
been burnt so often by Romans, Frenchmen, Burgundians, Germans,
Flemings, Huns perhaps,
And generally all those who in the last few
thousand years have taken a short cut at their enemies over the neck
of the Cote Barine. So you would imagine it to be a tumble-down, weak,
wretched, and disappearing place; but, so far from this, it is a rich
and proud village, growing, as I have said, better wine than any in
the garrison. Though Toul stands in a great cup or ring of hills, very
high and with steep slopes, and guns on all of them, and all these
hills grow wine, none is so good as Brule wine. And this reminds me of
a thing that happened in the Manoeuvres of 1891, _quorum pars magna_;
for there were two divisions employed in that glorious and fatiguing
great game, and more than a gross of guns - to be accurate, a hundred
and fifty-six - and of these one (the sixth piece of the tenth battery
of the eighth - I wonder where you all are now? I suppose I shall not
see you again; but you were the best companions in the world, my
friends) was driven by three drivers, of whom I was the middle one,
and the worst, having on my Livret the note 'conducteur mediocre'. But
that is neither here nor there; the story is as follows, and the moral
is that the commercial mind is illogical.
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