The downside of Sergeant Sharrack’s
licence was that he had to leave all the local bars an hour earlier before
everyone else or risk having his licence confiscated by the locals. It wasn’t a
document that he wanted to fall into enemy hands. Of course this meant that he
had a good hour before everyone else to discover where the after-hours booze
was kept; and in what container it came in. If he wasn’t ready to go; he’d also
quote the time difference in the hope that he’d swing an extra hour; depending
on how intelligent the locals were. Because he wasn’t allowed to remain sober
during closing time he actually found it easier to be sober during opening
hours so that he could keep one ear on the ground listening to the chats of the
locals. And once he’d found the booze, he often had to recruit someone to help
him to avoid any damage to the vessel’s contents.
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