The Man He Killed
A returned infantryman, talking as though across a bar, explains that he shot a man because the man was his foe, and then tries to say why the man was his foe. He gets as far as supposing the other had enlisted off-hand, out of work, having sold his traps, exactly as he had himself. Quaint and curious war is, he concludes, in the flattest words Hardy could find for him.
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