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Kindergarten

p [443] [tr ed p 461], line, Kennington, 149 x 125 mm

Lawrence in mortar-board and gown seated beside blackboard with pointer, yawning with boredom behind hand, watched by three uniformed officers on right.

p 442 [tr ed p 460] - 'The staff knew so much more of war than I did that they refused to learn from me of the strange conditions in which Arab irregulars had to act; and I could not be bothered to set up a kindergarten of the imagination for their benefit.'


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