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Flexen wasted no time beating about the bush, but said to him: "When you visited Elizabeth Twitcher last night you entered and left the Castle by the library window." "You got that from that young blighter Manley," said Hutchings bitterly. "Not at all. I did not know that Mr. Manley knew it," said Mr. Flexen. "So you did?" "Yes, sir, I did. I always went to the village that way in the summer-time.
For instance, having to pig it on the floor with all your brother Tommies. I slept for three months next to a beastly blighter who used to come in drunk and tread on my face and be ill all over me. Even now, when I look back on it, that seems worse than anything that's happened out here. But that's because at home your mind isn't adjusted to horrors.
Marmaduke retired, to be replaced by a brawny Irishman. "I caught him, O'Sullivan hit, man, hit just as he reached his dug-out. Kick it, man; you can't use your butt from there. Jab, jab you blighter; for God's sake use your gun as if you loved it. He stuck in the door, O'Sullivan, for half a second. There's the ball that's his back. Go on. Good, good."
But what I want to know is what he's taking all this trouble for. Coming, Dollops?" Dollops sent a reproachful look into Cleek's face and sniffed audibly. "Of course I'm comin', guv'nor," he made answer. "D'yer think I'd be such a dirty blighter as ter let you go dahn there p'raps ter your very death alone? Not me, sir.
Of course if you refused you were a "blighter" of the worst description. I retired gracefully my only regret being Bridget's companionship. Two beings could hardly have laughed as much as we had done when impossible situations had arisen, and when the verb "to cope" seemed ineffective and life just one "gentle" thing after the other. I was given the little Mors lorry to drive.
Well, thin, Riggins, whin I come out on the shtarboard ind av the bridge an' whistle 'God Save the King' troth, I'll gamble that's one blighter ye've hearrd tell av do ye run up into the pilot-house an' take the wheel.
An' a bald-'eaded blighter sittin' warm an' dry an' comfortable by 'is fireside at 'ome writes out an' tells me what the Country's thinkin'. I come in 'ere after a day that's enough to turn the 'air of a 'earse-'orse grey, an' I'm told about my pals bein' casualtied; an' to top it all I gets a letter from 'ome "why don't you do somethin'? Why don't you get up an' go for 'em?" Ar-r-rh!!
"Is old Alf all right?" asked another signaller quickly. "Yes" nodding and grinning "he's got a nice Blighty he's all right.... As I was sayin', he hit old Alf in the foot, and Mr Biles says to me, 'We'll get that blighter. So we dropped, and Mr Biles crawled away to the right and I went to the left. He popped off again after about five minutes, and I saw where the shot came from.
Now if you ask a private soldier whether he minds doing a thing instead of telling him to do it, his brain begins to get confused. As one defaulter, whose confusion of brain had led him into trouble, observed to his mates: "What can you do with a blighter who's a cross between a blinking Archbishop and a ruddy dicky-bird?"
I hear from the Brigade that some doddering idiot has cut our wire. Who in the hell was it?" "I don't know, sir. All I know is that I have seen a wonderful target, and couldn't fire a round at it. The relief's over by now, and, as we leave this sector to-night, we've lost a priceless chance." "It must be some wretched infantry blighter," said the Major.
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