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"'Twas on the night our little byby died, And Bill, 'e comes, and, 'Sal, 'e sez,'look ere, I've signed a pledge,'ser 'e, 'agains the beer. 'D'ye see? Sez 'e. 'And wot I 'ope ter syve Will tittervyte 'is bloomin' little gryve. Then Well yo' should 'ave 'eard us 'ow we cried Like bloomin' kids the night the byby died. "That song," said Poppy, "doesn't exactly suit my style of beauty.
They was only a few of them but they croaked the whole bloomin' six o' mine. "I tell you it was some scrap while it lasted; but I saved your guests from gettin' hurted an' I know that that's what you sent me to do. It's too bad about the six men we lost but, leave it to me, we'll get even with that Villa guy yet. Just lead me to 'im."
'And we know you've just relieved the Fifth Blankshires; and what's more, we know who's going to relieve you, and when. ''E knows a bloomin' heap, said a Tower Bridge private disgustedly; 'an' wot's more, I believe 'e does know it. Then, raising his voice, he asked, 'Do you know when we're comin' to take some more of them trenches o' yours?
"Don't be waxy, old chap," he pleaded, slipping an affectionate hand inside his brother-in-law's unresponsive arm. "I've been having such a high old time. And I'm not a bloomin' kid. I know what I'm about." "All very well," Mordaunt said. "I don't object to anything in reason. But you are too fond of taking French leave with other people's property. That gun, for instance "
You can leave 'im at night on a bald man's 'ead to paddle 'is own canoe; 'E's a sort of a bloomin' cosmopolot soldier an' sailor too.
And we'll treat you white. A better set o' boys never lived." "Hi'll do hit," said the Englishman decidedly. "Mebbe," suggested Shorty, remembering that this would still leave them four short, "some o' your gang'd like to come along with you." "Some o' them," said the Englishman earnestly. "Hevery bloomin' one o' them 'as got to go. They've got to volunteer.
"Sure ye would," said Shea, "and ate the cotton too, ef your masther told ye to. 'Tis the likes of ye, ye bloomin' furreighner, that kapes the thrust alive in this country." When they were like to come to blows, Kelly, with a mild show of superiority, which is second nature to a section boss, would interfere and restore order.
"Ain't it a bit momentary?" asked Bagshot, as they sat down. "Momentary betimes," answered Connor evasively. "Are you eatin' at this bloomin' swaree, then?" "I'm niver aff me forage-cake," answered Connor, and he ate as if he had had his tooth in nothing for a month.
"Why say, the letters that boy sent me on his trip to the Canadian Rockies, they just absolutely make you see the place as if you were standing there. Believe me, he could have given any of these bloomin' authors a whale of a run for their money!" Yet on the telephone they said only: "South 343. No, no, no! I said SOUTH South 343. Say, operator, what the dickens is the trouble?
There ain't enough work for two, and that's all there is to it, and being as you're young and active, why, I've left it to you, and look at my arms." He held them up. "Used to be all muscle, now they're nothin' but bloomin' pap. And no' but two glasses of beer a day extra have I drunk, just to pass the time.
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