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If a guv'nor ses two bloody words to me, I downs me tools and I ses to 'im, "Wot! Don't I suit yer, guv'ner? Ain't I done enuff for yer? Werry good! Gimmie me bleedin' a'pence." 'Quite right too, said everybody. That was the way to serve 'em. If only everyone would do the same as the tall man who had just paid for another round of drinks things would be a lot more comfortable than they was.
Yer read it in the paper!" "Wha' if I did?" "Yer said yer saw it yerself!" "Well, I read it in the papers and then I see the tree what they did it on arterwards. The nails was still there. An' what d'you know about it? Yer in the artillery, yer don't see no fightin'!" "Don't see no fightin'! Gorblimy, I reckon the infantry wouldn't be much bleedin' cop wi'out the artillery."
"Jes' hol' on a minute befo' you go, Mars John; fer ef dem people outside should git holt er me befo' you does git me out er here, I may never see you no mo', suh, in dis worl'. W'en Mars Billy McLean shot me by mistake, w'ile we wuz out huntin' dat day, who wuz it boun' up my woun's an' kep' me from bleedin' ter def, an' kyar'ed me two miles on his own shoulders ter a doctuh?"
If you also got a umbrella, why, just you make a combine o' the two an' aim for the bull's eye, though his nose will do just as good, specially if it's the bleedin' v'riety. No! P'licemen ain't what I'd reckmend, for bein' called to the resquer. In the first place, they ain't ap' to be there. An', besides, they wouldn't know what to do if they was. P'licemen is funny that way.
An' when that po' little woman hearn that they wan't comin' back, she pined away an' died an' when I come home a bleedin', there was a grave under the tree where we had seed her a standin' jest befo' we went down beyant the hill. "Mr. Starbuck " "Wait a minit, Jedge, I ain't through yit. What did I know how to do when I got back to work? What had my grandaddy an' my daddy done?
Groping his way into the woodshed, he entered the kitchen and, calling low, he went on into the main cabin. "Jean! Jean!" came his father's shaking voice. "Yes, I'm back," replied Jean. "Are you all right?" "Yes. I think I've got a bullet crease on my leg. I didn't know I had it till now.... It's bleedin' a little. But it's nothin'."
'Oo comes there? an' if the bloke or blokes say, 'Friend, then 'e'll say 'Hadvance one an' give the countersign, and if he can't give no countersign, then blow 'is bleedin' 'ead off, see?... Now I shall visit yer from time to time, an' let me find you spry an' smart with yer, 'Alt, 'Oo comes there? see?
And she laughed, but I'm not easy blinded, and well I see as she only laughed to 'ide a bleedin' 'art. 'Not me, Miss, says I; 'nice figure I should look a-goin' to a furrin' boardin' school at my time of life. "'It ain't boardin' school, says she. 'I'm a-going to learn to paint pictures.
An' if your pity's 'urtin' yer, think of 'im as 'adn't no wife nor kid to say when 'e's dead, 'Poor Peter Macnamara, 'e is gone." "A good job too, aw'm thinkin'." "An' a bloornin' 'ard 'eart y' 'ave. Wantin' of a man to die without leavin' 'is mark 'is bleedin' 'all mark on the world.
"And the Tuckers said they bet you thought yourself pretty smart since you'd been to the city.... "And then what happened," asked Pearl, when he paused; "He went home it wouldn't stop bleedin'! but Mr. Donald says a good nose-bleed wouldn't hurt him though of course it was wrong to fight but it was no fight you know what they're like one good thump and they're done!"
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