Question

As a boy, I was very fond of the old soldier in our little town. He had only one

leg, having lost the other somewhere in Assam in 1942. He used to sit on the bank of

our small river and tell me about his adventures. He told me that he had ran away

from home to join the army when he was eighteen. He had experienced his first

battle in the Libiyan desert in the Second World War. He used to tell me dozens of

war stories, but the one I liked the best was the one of his escape from a Japanese

prison of war camp in Burma. He told me again and again how he walked two

hundred miles in two weeks. On the way he was bitten on the toe by a poisonous

snake and he had to cut off part of the toe in order to survive. But the wound did not

heal and by the time he got to an Indian camp it had turned septic and the leg had to

be amputated. He is apparently quite contented with his lot. He says that his pension

is enough for his needs: and the fish he catches and sells provides him the money

for his entertainment.


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A Soldier

I am a boy, who was fond of the old soldier in our little town. He had a leg , having lost the other in Assam in 1942.He sat the the bank of our small river and told me about his adventures. He told me that he joined the army in eighteen. He told me that he walked two hundred miles in two weeks. On the way a sneak bitten of his toe. And he lost a leg.