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Bourgeois Animal. Wilson's Adrift in Soho is about Harry, who felt like "a trapped animal" in his Midlands town. So he came to London with about ?25, a cardboard suitcase and a haversack full of books to practice his trade of being a poet and philosopher. Almost immediately he meets his mate, a New Zealander named Doreen, and his mentor, a sometime actor named Charles Compton Street. Charles introduces him to the fine art of living without working-cadging food and drink, stealing an occasional rare book, sleeping on suburban trains or on somebody's floor. Charles...
...provisions and the solid enjoyment that comes from the windfall that is a well-cooked meal. Old campaigners will appreciate Gary's admiring definition of an old soldier, later echoed by Bernard Shaw in Arms and the Man: "A man who always has something eatable in his haversack and drinkable in his bottle, a reserve of tobacco and matches, a warm hole to sleep...
...summer of 1862, a Union cavalry patrol galloping by the deserted station of Beaver Dam, Va. almost rode down a meek-looking little Confederate scout day dreaming in the sun. In his haversack they found a single, unimportant-looking letter and a newly-published copy of Napoleon's Maxims of War. Unimpressed, they read and destroyed the letter, sent the scout off to jail in Washington...
Simple in form, the procedure merely requires the subject to step up and down from a small stool with a lead-weighted haversack on his back. From pulse readings immediately after the exertion and at intervals during the next five minutes, a score can be computed which classifies the subject as poor, average, good, or superior...
...footed, unbashful Captain Wermuth splashed great spurts from the puddies as he strode, and the front files grinned at his equipment: a tommy gun slung across his back, two revolvers (he does not trust automatics) snugged by their horsehide lanyards to his long legs, grenades bulging his pockets and haversack. The little Scouts knew this was no showcase equipment. Bataan's One-Man Army, who brags a heap but always makes good, is officially credited by his regimental commander with killing at least 80 Japs singlehanded. Flamboyant Captain Wermuth, who often works alone, claims...