A Soldier's Experience

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If thou art borrowed by a friend, Right welcome shall he be To read, to study, not to lend, But to return to me. Not that imparted knowledge doth Diminish learning’s store; But books, I find, if often lent, Return to me no more. Read slowly. Pause frequently. Think seriously. Return duly— With the corners of the leaves not turned down.

Illustration from A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863

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T. GOWING,

Late Sergeant-Major, Royal Fusiliers