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| 45 | 41 | View more quotes about commonly">Commonly the majority of the group, say, nine out of ten, rejoicing in their survival are only too happy to finish the matter and return to duty. |
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| 45 | 38 | Most commonly a gambling takes place, with cards, marked stones, a drawing of straws, and such. |
| 45 | 39 | The man who loses in the gambling is then put to death by his fellows. |
| 45 | 40 | Commonly this is done with stones or clubs, so that the observing troops, better armed, can enforce the killing, and kill the entire group, should the 'guilty group' be recalcitrant or reluctant to carry out the decimation, which reluctance, incidentally, seldom occurs. |
| 45 | 41 | Commonly the majority of the group, say, nine out of ten, rejoicing in their survival are only too happy to finish the matter and return to duty. |
| 45 | 42 | There is some point to decimation, hideous as it may seem. |
| 45 | 43 | It is generally regarded as good for discipline. |
| 45 | 44 | Also, troops which have followed orders and risked their lives in battle are unlikely to view with tolerance or equanimity those who have shirked their duty and thus, quite possibly, put their fellows in greater peril. |