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But Corporal King, who earned his stripes by reason of physical rather than intellectual attributes, can only contribute a lame reference to "a bit hedge by yon dyke, where there's a kin' o' hole in the tairget." Wagstaffe breaks in "Now, everybody, take some conspicuous and unmistakable object about the middle of that landscape something which no one can mistake.
"That must be rather galling," said Wagstaffe. "Ah! but listen! Of course party politics have now been merged in the common cause see local organs, passim and both sides are working shoulder to shoulder for the maintenance of our national existence." "Applause!" murmured Kemp.
Private Mucklewame is of opinion that it would be equally effective, and infinitely less fatiguing, simply to lie down prone and close the eyes. After Captain Wagstaffe has criticised the preliminary parapets most of them are condemned as not being bullet-proof the work is continued.
And so in the afternoon my wife went to church, and he and I stayed at home and drank and talked, and he stayed with me till night and supped with me, when I expected to have seen Jack Cole and Lem. Wagstaffe, but they did not come.
What I hate to feel at present is that the other fellows, out there, have got to go on sticking it, while we " "And by God," exclaimed Wagstaffe, "what stickers they are and were!
At present he is too demoralised to attempt anything beyond intermittent machine-gun fire." Colonel Kemp turned to Cockerell. "Get Captain Little on the telephone," he said, "and tell him, if the enemy displays any disposition to counter-attack, to let me know at once." Then he turned to Wagstaffe, and asked the question which always lurks furtively on the tongue of a commanding officer.
And what's more, we are going to derive a national benefit out of this war which will in itself be worth the price of admission!" "How?" asked several voices. Wagstaffe looked round the table. The Battalion were for the moment in Divisional Reserve, and consequently out of the trenches. Some one had received a box of Coronas from home, and the mess president had achieved a bottle of port.
"It sounds a lot," said Bobby. "It looks precious little!" was Wagstaffe's reply. "I suppose they won't be particular to a pound or so," said Bobby optimistically. "Listen," commanded Wagstaffe. "When we go abroad, your Wolseley valise, containing this" he swept his hand round the crowded hut "this military museum, will be handed to the Quartermaster.
Yes, Bobby, when our boys get back, and begin to ask the Bandar-log what they did in the Great War well, it's going to be a rotten season for Bandar-log generally!" There was silence again. Presently Bobby spoke: "When our boys get back! Some of them are never coming back again, worse luck!" "Still," said Wagstaffe, "what they did was worth doing, and what they died for was worth while.
To be fair, Nature had done little to help him. He was thirty-three inches round the chest, five feet four in height, and weighed possibly nine stone. His complexion was pasty, and, as Captain Wagstaffe remarked, you could hang your hat on any bone in his body.
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