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The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2

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Laborers Were Plentiful

An officer who served with Lord Kitchener in Egypt tells the following anecdote of him:

“During the progress of some construction work in Upper Egypt the young subaltern in charge had the misfortune to lose some native workmen through the accidental explosion of some cases of dynamite. He telegraphed to Lord Kitchener, then Sirdar:

“‘Regret to report killing ten laborers by dynamite accident.’

“In a few hours came this laconic dispatch: “Do you need any more dynamite?”—Pittsburgh Dispatch.

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