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The songs of the day could also be heard at Gambrinous'.
At the time of the Boer War, the "Boer March" was a great favourite. (It seems that the famous fight between the Russian and English sailors took place at this very time.) Twenty times an evening at least they forced Sasha to play this heroic march, and invariably waved their caps and shouted "Hurrah! " They would look askance, too, at indifferent onlookers, which was not always a good omen at Gambrinous'.