Slang phrases, and a sort of camp language, were used in the army immensely; they are not classic, but when a happy phrase, or a slang phrase of a reasonable character, condenses a page into a line and con veys its meaning clear, that phrase should be written until it becomes classic grammarian dignity is the stage-coach, terse phrase the light ning express. Still, we hold all marred language under protest.

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