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Everybody knew old Jasper Trent, the Crimean veteran who had helped to beat the "Roosians and the Proosians," and who, so it was rumoured, had more wounds upon his worn, bent body than there were months in the year.
The whole village was proud of old Jasper, proud of his age, proud of his wounds, and proud of the medals that shone resplendent upon his shrunken breast.