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You see, McCuaig was snipin' the first tour, and he's a killer, you bet, and he had only cut three natches in his rifle.
But when she came downstairs again a lanky, ghostly creature, much grown, her fierce black eyes more noticeable than ever in her pinched face Hannah's appetite for 'snipin' to use the expressive Derbyshire word returned upon her. The child was almost bullied into her bed again or would have been if David had not found ways of preventing it.
I ain't sayin' nothing about that, but you don't see things that I see, and you don't get the news same as I do. Now, about Jim Berry, you know, he was goin' to do some snipin' in place of McCuaig, who went to the machine gun company." "McCuaig, in the machine gun company! I never heard that."
If Macgregor was disposed to be over-credulous, his friend Willie was sceptical enough for two. 'I hear we're for the Dardanelles next week, the former observed one afternoon. Willie snorted. 'What the wud they send us yins to the Dardanelles afore we ken hoo to fire a rifle? 'I heard it for a fac', Macgregor returned imperturbably. 'They want us yins for begnet wark, no for snipin'.
"Air you tellin' me, Tobe Cullum," his wife said, when she had heard him to the end "air you p'intedly tellin' me that you've took Bud Hines snipin'? An' that you've left that sickly, consumpted young man a-settin' out there by hisse'f to catch his death of cold; or maybe git his blood sucked out by a catamount!" "Shucks, Sissy!" replied Tobe; "nothin' ain't goin' to hurt him.
Well, he started out snipin' the day after McCuaig quit, and McCuaig gave him his rifle too, and took him up to the 'hide. Well, big Jim was always a careless cuss, you know. He gets his eye on the hole, sightin' his rifle, and McCuaig was watchin' through one of them new things " "Perry's scope." "Yes, that's it, Paris cope. Them French is mighty smart fellows, you bet. When along walks a Hun.
He could not get time to attend to the farm, was obliged to leave things to the hired man, and was in trouble often about his affairs. 'Bit yo see, she hasna t' reet use of her speach, he said, excusing himself humbly to this handsome city nephew. 'An' she conno gie ower snipin aw at onst. 'Twudna be human natur'. An't' gell's worritin' an' I mun tell her what t' missis says.
And it's a nice little sail across old Barnegat Bay with the oyster fleet busy and the fishin' boats dotted around. But the native who piloted us out was doubtful about anybody's being on High Bar. "I seen some parties shootin' around on Love Ladies yesterday," says he, "an' a couple more was snipin' on Sea Dog, but I didn't hear nary gun let off on th' Bar."
Say, he's sleepin' with that Lewis gun ever since. Just pets it like a baby. What was I tellin' you? Oh, yes, about McCuaig and Jim Berry. Well, he took McCuaig's place snipin' and a good sniper he was too. He used to hunt, you know, up in the mountains with Jim Knight every fall.
Love-o'-Women wud stay pottin' an' pottin' from behind a rock, and wait till the fire was heaviest, an' thin stand up an' fire man-height clear. He wud lie out in camp too at night snipin' at the shadows, for he niver tuk a mouthful av slape.
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