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In a few moments the ward would be a clamorous inferno of mimic battle sounds machine guns popping, shells screaming toward explosion, cries of gas, and the simulated agonized wails of the wounded and dying. "Hit the dirt! Here comes a G.I. can." "Look out for that flying pig!" "Over the top, my buckoes, and give 'em the bayonet."
A Lieutenant Smoot, one of the ferry pilots who had flown up one of the Nieuports, sought to ease the pain caused by his own lowly calling by taunting Tex Yancey an extremely dangerous pastime, for Tex had a ready tongue. "When you buckoes have washed out these planes," he said, "the Old Man will see the error of his way and send us up to do the real flying.
"You mixed nest o' mongrels," he would say, at the end of some petty squabble which he had settled for them, "why don't you stay in your own country ships? Or, if you must sign in American craft, try to feel and act like Americans. It's just this same yawping at one another in the forecastles that makes it easy for the buckoes aft to hunt you. And that's why you get your berths.
But this time I want to go right into it, head down and heels up, and get a twist on those Porteous buckoes, and raise 'em right out of their boots. We get a crop report this morning, and if the visible supply is as large as I think it is, the price will go off and unsettle the whole market.
But Mr. Knapp and Mr. Hansen still respected themselves, and were coming. "You keep back, there you two," yelled Johnson, excitedly. "Stand by here, mates. These buckoes 'll kill someone yet. Look out for their brass knuckles and guns." And the two officers halted.
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