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The legend reads: “Machin, the staff officer, the terror of the soldier, doesn’t joke with the rules and regulations; has risen from the `rank` and file; a very useful individual; it’s always Machin here and Machin there, ask Machin. He terrorizes the one-year volunteers, whom he treats as young shoots (literal translation beets); an old bachelor to the core.”
- Author
- The Project Gutenberg EBook of Drawing for Printers., by Ernest Knaufft published 1899
- Posted on
- Monday 27 April 2020
- Dimensions
- 900*1143
- Tags
- Century:19th, Place:France, Soldiers
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