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I could not get clear of him for a good half-hour, and in the end was only able to raise what I expected to wit, a broad-bladed triangular hoe with a short crooked handle. However, as we did not propose to go in for any systematic navvying, and as there was nothing better to be got, back I went with it, and found Weems quite alive again, and on the prowl for what he could find.
"No, but dreadfully curious," she began. He took a roll of dirty notes out of his pocket and threw it in her lap. "Look! Alone I did it! Monish, old girl! Filthy lucre! Just enough to take us home. I meant to do it off my own bat, without asking your uncle!" "But how on earth could you, in the time?" she asked. "Navvying! That bally railway cutting at Cook's Wall!
They were: and actually this was their first spell of duty in the forward firing trenches. They had been out for some weeks, weary weeks, filled with the digging of communication trenches well behind the firing trenches, with drills and with various 'fatigues' of what they considered a navvying rather than a military nature.
There we were, sweating and clanging and navvying, till the day shift came to relieve us. And I ought to say that fifty feet above our great gap, and from end to end across it, there ran a travelling crane on a skeleton line, with platform, engine, and wooden cab all compact in one.
And they are the navvies of the world. And whilst they are navvying, they are almost shockingly indifferent to their circumstances, merely callous to the dirt and foulness. It is as if the whole social form were breaking down, and the human element swarmed within the disintegration, like maggots in cheese.
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