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Updated: May 12, 2025
Being at Bristol, comfortably housed at the Bible and Crown in Wine Street, the landlord much given to swearing, but one of the best hands at making of Mum that ever I knew, Captain Blokes had great work in settling business with the Company of Merchant Adventurers and Alderman Quarterbutt, their President.
"It ain't such an escape as what you blokes think, because, you see, the bomb ain't nothin' more nor an ornary jam tin with a bit of fuse what I stuck in it." And he disappeared down the trench as rapidly as had his comrades a few minutes before. "So, you see, Schoolmaster," said Oberleutnant von Scheldmann, "you French are a race of dogs.
"Something of the sort," replied Doggie cautiously. "One can always tell you eddicated blokes. Making your five quid a week easy, I suppose?" "About that," said Doggie. "What were you?" "I was making my thirty bob a week regular. I was in the fish business, I was. And now I'm serving my ruddy country at one and twopence a day. Funny life, ain't it?" "I can't say it's very enjoyable," said Doggie.
She sat down unsteadily and, as she did so, she realized that the place had a slightly rolling motion, like a ship on the sea. When Johnny realized that it was Jerry the Rat who was whispering at the keyhole he admitted him at once. "I seen it! I seen it; a submarine! A German submarine in the river!" the Rat whispered excitedly. "I seen dose blokes wid me own eyes.
To chop wood, and to wake ole Sandy when 'e snores. Down the line our blokes run over and give it to the Alleymans like 'ell, and up 'ere we sits jest like a lot of dolls while they send over those darned bombs. I'll give 'em what for. I'll put it acrost 'em." And he disappeared round the traverse with the canteen of tea for his officer.
Joey Grinaldi has been a fav'rit clown in two hemispheres for forty years. Some day I'll show you the medals I got in London and Paris and but never mind now. You start right in this afternoon, doin' just wot I tells you. You'll be all right and them blokes as is 'untin' for you won't be able to twig you from sole leather. Wot say?" "I'll do just as you say," said David simply. "Good!
"You thought the blokes on the metals was a workin' gang of our chaps at the fust go off," complained the guard, "an' you opened the whistle to warn 'em!" "He did that for sure," put in the Cardiff stoker. "But he was tipping me the wink while he did it, so he was; as much as to say he knew they were Boers all the time."
At eight at night we weighed, having a Kinsale Pilot on board, who was like to have endangered our safety, the night being dark and foggy, and the Pilot not understanding his Business; so that he nearly turned us into the next Bay to the westward of Cork, which provoked Captain Blokes to chastise him publicly on the quarter-deck.
He found that worthy looking as benevolently greasy as ever, and ready to offer him all the resources of his larder. "I thought I'd come and get my tea now, cook, I've got to go out on patrol at sundown. I'm afraid I'm a beastly nuisance." "Nuisance? No, o' course not. I ain't one o' them blokes as grumble cause a feller's 'ungry. Wot d'yer say to a bit o' cold meat and some tea to start with?"
"'Don't give me away, old man, he whimpered; 'for Gawd's sake, don't let on to any of the chaps 'ere that I'm a member of that blessed old waxwork show in Saint James's: they'd never speak to me agen. And keep yer mug shut about Oxford, there's a good sort. I wouldn't 'ave 'em know as 'ow I was one o' them college blokes for anythink. "I sat aghast.
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