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I’m going in the house.” “I’ll go get my bean shooter, and see if I can kill that mosquito!” exclaimed Bawly, who once went hunting after the buzzers, and shot quite a number.
Bogle retired, not before it was time, within the sheltering portals of the estaminet, where not less than seven inarticulate but appreciative fellow-countrymen offered him refreshment. An Observation Post or "O Pip," in the mysterious patois of the Buzzers is not exactly the spot that one would select either for spaciousness or accessibility.
I remember one day when six boys and I believe one girl stood facing the school with their mouths propped open at full stretch, each gripping a book and trying to study! Inveterate "buzzers" those who had been called out two or three times had not only to face the school with props in their mouths but to mount and stand on top of the master's desk.
"Didn't I hear a buzzer then?" he would ask in his softest tone, raising his finger to point to the offender. "Ah, yes. It is it is you! Come out here. Those lips need a lesson." The lesson consisted in your standing, facing the school, with your mouth propped open. The props were of wood, and were one or two inches long, for small or large "buzzers."
He saw the entire ladder go curling away into the emptiness like a huge broken spring. Then he lay on the platform face down with his eyes closed, fingers clutching the sill of the door, for a long time. New sounds invaded his personal darkness as he lay there. He heard bells, buzzers, klaxons, whistles and slamming relays.
But if you are engaged in battle, and the wires which link up the driving force in front with the directing force behind are devastated by a storm of shrapnel, the matter assumes a more nay, a most serious aspect. Hence the superlative importance in modern warfare of the Signal Sections of the Royal Engineers tersely described by the rank-and-file as the "Buzzers," or the "Iddy-Umpties."
"I hear they Gairmans send signals wi' their kirk-nocks," remarks Private M'Micking, who, as one of the Battalion signallers or "buzzers," as the vernacular has it, in imitation of the buzzing of the Morse instrument regards himself as a sort of junior Staff Officer. "They jist semaphore with the haunds of the nock "
The party have descended, with the delicate care of those who essay to perform acrobatic feats in kilts, from bicycles serviceable but appallingly heavy machines of Government manufacture, the property of the "Buzzers," but commandeered for the occasion. The Quartermaster-Sergeant, who is not accustomed to strenuous exercise, mops his brow and glances expectantly round the place.
He could relieve his father's anxiety later. It was his own puzzlement of mind that he first wished to ease. Where was Koku? Even had the giant been circling the stockade around the shops he surely must have come up to the home premises by this time. His keen ears could not fail to hear the buzzers. They were still going and would go until the switch was turned.
The windows rattled with shrapnel bursting 600 yards away. The house was jarred through and through by the concussion of a heavy battery firing over our heads. The room was like a toy-shop with a lot of small children sounding all the musical toys. The vibrators and the buzzers were like hoarse toy trumpets.
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