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Upstarts
That evening we had a drunken party in the CP tent to celebrate our victory and to
dull the sensations from the aftermath. Everyone brought in a captured bottle or two.
Major Swatosh had a bottle of a dark, syrupy-looking liquid with a French label. "I don't
know what this is," he said, "but it must be good stuff. A Frenchman offered me a
hundred francs for it!"
Somebody who had taken high school French looked at the label. "It's motor oil,"
he announced.
We didn't drink it. We had plenty without it.
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