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To hear 'em git orf saler lingo you'd spose they'd bin on the briny Deep for a lifetime, when the fact is they haint tasted salt water since they was infants, when they had to take it for WORMS. Still they air good natered fellers, and when they drink they take a dose big enuff for a grown person. I've bin follerin Mrs.
Then I j'ined my ship, an' when I come home again she's sloped wi' a bloomin' leather-necked Marine wot used to peel orf his ruddy tunic an' turn th' mangle for her! Don't have 'em tattooed, Mister. Paint 'em on while yer with 'em, same's I do, then you kin wash 'em orf when you feels like a change."
He just turned round an' was walkin' orf to the dressin' station when a shell busted atween us. It copped me in the 'ead an' knocked me senseless. Arterwards I 'eard me mate 'ad bin blowed ter bits. Oh, it's 'ard when yer've bin together all the time an' shared everythink."
'I've got some of the beastly stuff on my coat sleeve. 'Oh, that's nothing, sir, cried Philpot, secretly delighted. 'I'll get that orf for yer in no time. You wait just 'arf a mo! He had a piece of clean rag in his tool bag, and there was a can of turps in the room. Moistening the rag slightly with turps he carefully removed the paint from Sweater's sleeve.
'Seems to be gettin' colder, don't it? 'It's enough to freeze the ears orf a brass monkey! remarked Easton as he descended from a ladder close by and, placing his pot of paint on the pound, began to try to warm his hands by rubbing and beating them together. He was trembling, and his teeth were chattering with cold.
Then there's the Conchies what 'as a easy time in clink if I see a Conchy in civvy life, I'll knock 'is bloody 'ead orf, struth I will. And the civvies gorblimy when I was 'ome on leave they kep' on arstin' me, 'Ain't yer wounded yet? an' 'When are yer goin' back? But d'yer think they care a damn Not they, you bet yer life on it!
As to Matilder, she an' me never did, what you might call, hit it orf, by reason of 'er not givin' way to me, as she should ha' done, me bein' the youngest and what you might call the baby of the lot. We ain't seen each other fur years, and the meetin' will be cold. She'll not have much forgiveness fur me bein' a bride, when she's but a lone cross-patch, drat her." "Don't quarrel with her, Debby.
The orderly untied the sling and began to unwind the bandage, but the man drew his arm away and cried: "Oo, oo, oo, very painful, sir, very painful!" The orderly, pleased at being mistaken for an officer, said in a soothing, patronizing voice: "We'll just have this bit o' bandage orf an' then we'll give yer some gas and send yer orf to sleep. You won't feel nothin' and yer a sure Blighty.
"'Ere, take 'old," gurgled Coke, who had nearly swallowed the cigar in his surprise at Iris's unforeseen collapse. "This kind of thing is more in your line than mine, young feller. Just lay 'er out in the saloon, an' ax Watts to 'elp. His missus goes orf regular w'en they bring 'im 'ome paralytic." Philip took the girl into his arms.
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