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We're both front-rank men, me an' Jock, when the rig'mint's in 'ollow square. Bloomin' fine you'd look. "The Lord giveth an' the Lord taketh awai, Heasy with that there drop! Blessed be the naime o' the Lord," he gulped in a quaint and suggestive fashion. 'Mullins! Wot's Mullins? said Learoyd slowly. 'Ah'd take a coomp'ny o' Mullinses-ma hand behind me. Sitha, Mulvaney, don't be a fool.
"Yon's a fearfu' buddy ye've got in yer shanty doon yonder, Sandy," she began solemnly. "Ah'd no let him sleep there anither nicht." Her brother was busy distributing the fried pork around the table, a performance at which he was an adept.
"I guess all the barrage we're going to see's grenade practice." "Don't you worry, buddy," said somebody across the room. "You'll see enough of it. This war's going to last damn long...." "Ah'd lak to get in some licks at those Huns tonight; honest to Gawd Ah would, Andy," muttered Chris in a low voice. He felt his muscles contract with a furious irritation.
Mah goodness! we have to cyoant the coast so much nowadays; it seems to me we do nothing but cyoant it. Ah'd like to hah something once without askin' the price." "Well, if you didn't ask it," said Alma, "I don't believe Mr. Wetmore would ever know what the price of his lessons was. He has to think, when you ask him." "Why, he most be chomming," said Miss Woodburn.
They stood still in the darkening field, staring up at the sky, where a few larks still hung chirruping. "Ah'd lahk to be one o' them guys," said Chrisfield. "You would?" "God damn it, Ah'd do anything to git out o' this hellish infantry. This ain't no sort o' life for a man to be treated lahk he was a nigger." "No, it's no sort of life for a man."
He never done a thing like this befo' to-day since Ah been married; jus' hung roun' 'n been aggravatin'." Sydney took the hard hand between her own soft palms and stroked it gently. "Hush, dear, don't sob like that. Can't Bud keep him away? Can't he forbid him to come here?" "Ah'd be afraid to tell him about this, he's that fiery-tempered, Bud is.
"You're damn right there warn't." "Ah'd lak te live in this country a while," said Chrisfield. "We might ask 'em to let us off right here." "Can't be that the front's like this," said Judkins, poking his head out between Andrews's and Chrisfield's heads so that the bristles of his unshaven chin rubbed against Chrisfield's cheek.
Ah've got a buggie, ye ken, an' a coo o' ma ain', foreby a settin' o' Plymouths, an' ah'm to have a horse, he says, to drive to Cheemaun ah got that oot o' him in writin' an' he didna ken whet ah wes up to. But ah'd like to ken jist hoo much ah'm to expact. Ah'm no goin' to leap an' look aefterwards." Elizabeth listened with mixed feelings. Auntie Jinit was not so much to be pitied after all.
"Ah'll push that guy Anderson into the sea, if we both go over on the same boat," said Chrisfield laughing; but he added after a pause: "It would have been hell if Ah'd killed that feller, though. Honest Ah wouldn't a-wanted to do that." "That's the job that pays, a violinist," said somebody.
"Well, seh, Mahstah Majah, of co'se, yo'-all tole me to fix it man own way, an' Ah lay Ah'd do it raghtly an' so Miss Cahline is ve'y busy goin' th'oo th' rooms an' spressin' huhse'f how grand evehthing suttinly do look an' so fothe an' so on, an' sh' ain't payin' much attention Ah reckon sh' ain't huhd raghtly " "Clem the Bible says, 'How forceful are right words!"
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