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The sergeant in charge of the clothing store was curt. He couldn't help it: he had run short of tunics, also of "pants"--except three pairs which wouldn't fit me, wouldn't fit anybody, unless we enlisted three very fat dwarfs: he had kept on asking for tunics and pants, and they'd sent him nothing but great-coats and water-bottles: I could take his word for it, he wished he was at the Front, he did, instead of in this blessed hole filling in blessed forms for blessed clothes which never came. Impossible, anyhow, to rig me out. I was going on duty, was I? Then I must. | Observations of an Orderly by Ward Muir 1 Observations of an Orderly by Ward Muir The Project Gutenberg eBook Observations of an Orderly by Ward Muir This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital Author Ward Muir Release Date February 1 2006 eBook 17655 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 Observations of an Orderly by Ward Muir 2 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OBSERVATIONS OF AN ORDERLY E-text prepared by Suzanne Lybarger Irma Spehar and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team http from page images generously made available by Internet Archive Canadian Libraries http details toronto Note Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive Canadian Libraries. See http details observationsorderly00muiruoft OBSERVATIONS OF AN ORDERLY Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital by . WARD MUIR . T. Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent Co. Ltd. 4 Stationers Hall Court London Copyright First published July 1917 Novels by the Author of Observations of an Orderly THE AMAZING MUTES WHEN WE ARE RICH CUPID S CATERERS Also Editor of HAPPY--THOUGH WOUNDED The Book of the Third London General Hospital TO . . BRUCE PORTER . OFFICER IN COMMAND OF THE 3RD LONDON GENERAL HOSPITAL Some passages from Observations of an Orderly have appeared generally in a shorter form in The Spectator The New Statesman The Hospital The Evening Standard The National News The Dundee Advertiser The Daily News and The Daily Mail. The author desires to make the usual acknowledgments to their editors. The coloured design on the paper wrapper is by Sergeant Noel Irving . T. a