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become identified with British imperialism.
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B.P, "He loves the night and after his return
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from the hollows of the veldt, where he has kept so many anxious vigils,
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he lies awake hour after hour upon his camp mattress
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in the veranda tracing out in his mind the various means
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and agencies by which he can forestall the Boer move,
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which unknown to them he has personally already watched.
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He is the wolf who never sleeps."
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Now, B.P., those initials also become British Pluck,
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the idea that the British are mudders.
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This is kind of the image that would come out of the very heroic Battle
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of Britain under the bombs of German Luftwaffe in world War II.