Read The Complete McAuslan Online
Authors: George Macdonald Fraser
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Adventure Stories, #Historical Fiction, #Soldiers, #Humorous, #Biographical Fiction, #Short Stories (Single Author), #Scots, #Sea Stories, #War & Military, #Humorous Fiction
The Complete McAuslan (75 page)
Which is long and complex, and may be found in
McAuslan in the Rough.
The tea-urn is presumably still lying somewhere near the summit of Scafell Pike. The man who went missing from my section, on a night exercise in Norfolk, turned up the following day, drunk. The guardroom was an enormous bell-tent which was removed from over my sleeping head by Royal Scots Fusiliers and Cameronians celebrating Hogmanay at Deolali, India.
A famous department store on the Port Said waterfront, correctly spelled Simon Arzt but known to servicemen as ‘Simon Arts’.
Table of Contents
Monsoon Selection Board
Silence in the Ranks
Play Up, Play Up, and Get Tore In
Wee Wullie
The General Danced at Dawn
Night Run to Palestine
The Whisky and the Music
Guard at the Castle
McAuslan’s Court-Martial
Bo Geesty
Johnnie Cope in the Morning
General Knowledge, Private Information
Parfit Gentil Knight, But
Fly Men
McAuslan in the Rough
His Majesty Says Good-Day
The Servant Problem
Captain Errol
The Constipation of O’Brien
The Sheikh and the Dustbin
McAuslan, Lance-Corporal
The Gordon Women
Ye mind Jie Dee, Fletcher?
Extraduction