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Updated: May 29, 2025
The reply came back instantly from the dark forms: "Shut your blinkin' mouth, you bloomin' idiot; do you want us to click it from the Boches?" Later we learned that the word, "No challenging or firing, wiring party out in front," had been given to the sentry on our right, but he had failed to pass it down the trench.
I thought: 'Blimey, I thought, 'if I ain't under thet blinkin' mountain now, an' all these people, I ses, 'is the Little People they tell of, that lives inside 'ills, an' on'y comes out under the moon. I remembered thet moonlight debt o' mine, an' I thought 'I'm done with the mud now, I'm comin' alive now, I ses, 'and this'll be my charnce. Presently Elbert come back to me, an' 'e was draggin' a soldier by the 'and.
"The Flames, guv'nor the blinkin' Frozen Flames!" Cleek laughed. "Yes. The Flames all right, Dollops. And nearer than we've seen 'em, too! We must be right in the middle of the Fens, from the appearance of those lights, so, all told, we've done a mile or more underground, which isn't so bad, my lad, when you come to look at the time." He brought out his watch and surveyed it in the moonlight.
Say, that was a great little thought, for the Agnes has a high-powered glim, and when I swung it onto that excursion boat it made theirs look like a boardin'-house gas jet with the pressure low. You could see the folks blinkin' and battin' their eyes as if they was half blinded. Nest I picks up the pilot house and gives the man at the wheel the full benefit. "Hey!
"Sure to!" said Ainsley. "It will cave in the entrance completely; and then as soon as we get back, we'll give the gunners the tip, and leave them to keep on lobbing some shells in and breaking up any attempt to reopen the shaft and dig out the mining party." "Billy!" said one of the men, in an audible aside, "don't you wish you was a merry little German down that blinkin' tunnel, to-night!"
'Lave aff your palaverin' you snakin' owld sinner, says Sat'n; 'you know you're bought and sould to me, and a purty bargain I have o' you, you owld baste, says he; 'so come along at wanst, and he put out his claw to ketch him; but the colonel tuk a fast hould o' the Bible, and begged hard that he'd let him alone, and wouldn't harm him antil the bit o' candle that was just blinkin' in the socket before him was burned out.
An' you," she added, turning to her step-mother, "wid your cheeks poulticed, an' your eye blinkin' on the other side what a pair o' beauties you are, ha! ha! ha! I wouldn't be surprised if the divil an' his mother fell in consate wid you both! ha! ha!" "Is that your manners, afther spendin' the night away wid yourself?" asked her father, angrily.
"I don't rightly know, Suh," says he; "but you can send up a call, Suh, from the desk there, and " "Ah, let's not disturb the operator," says I. "Give a guess." "I'm thinking she'll be taking her drive, Suh," says Cephas, blinkin' stupid. "Then I'll have to go up and wait," says I. "She'd be mighty sore on us both if she missed me. Up, Cephas!" "Yes, Suh," says he, pullin' the lever.
Henceforth his employer saw pretense was useless. "Beg pardon, sir," said the valet apologetically. "I couldn't help overhearin' what you were sayin', an' if there's any blinkin' Chinee hidden in this place I'll put a mark on him he won't forget in a hurry." Theydon could not help laughing, but Bates was in earnest.
An' as for cattle! it looks like it's one onbroken herd from Fort Elliot to where the Canadian opens into the Arkansaw! "The chuck waggons of a thousand brands ain't two days behind the boys, an' by no time after that blizzard simmers, thar's camp-fires burnin' an' blinkin' between the Canadian an' the Red all along from the Choctaw country as far west as the Panhandle.
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