In our time

In our time

Everybody was drunk. The whole battery was drunk going along the road in the dark. We were going to the Champagne. The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, Im drunk, I tell you, mon vieux. Oh, I am so soused. We went along the road all night in the dark and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, You must put it out. It is dangerous. It will be observed. We were fifty kilometers from the front but the adjutant worried about the fire in my kitchen. It was funny going along that road. That was when I was a kitchen corporal. The first matador got the horn through his sword hand and the crowd hooted him out. The second matador slipped and the bull caught him through the belly and he hung on to the horn with one hand and held the other tight against the place, and the bull rammed him wham against the wall and the horn came out, and he lay in the sand, and then got up like crazy drunk and tried to slug the men carrying him away and yelled for his sword but he fainted. The kid came out and had to kill five bulls because you cant have more than three matadors, and the last bull he was so tired he couldnt get the sword in. He couldnt hardly lift his arm. He tried five times and the crowd was quiet because it was a good bull and it looked like him or the bull and then he finally made it. He sat down in the sand and puked and they held a cape over him while the crowd hollered and threw things down into the bull ring. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 61085
Author: Hemingway, Ernest
Release Date: Jan 3, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Illustrator: Strater, Henry, 1896-1987