Excerpt from An Author in the Territorials: Experiences Humorous and Otherwise<br><br>The words were shouted by a butcher boy to another butcher boy on the Opposite side of the street, as the door of the house closed behind my six feet one inch figure, clad for the first time in the kharki uniform Of the Royal Sussex Regiment.<br><br>The typical butcher boy is a sort of Blue Uhlan, waging guerilla warfare against us all. He charges us Cossack-wise in his cart, as we try to cross a road, or swoops down upon us, round a street corner, with the suddenness and the unexpectedness of a pouncing hawk. Afoot, if he be not pelting us with a catapult.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.