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And then, as likely as not, a little farther away, behind the officers' quarters, you'll hear one say: "I say, old chap, it's deucedly peculiar I should have so many of the beastly things after putting on the Harrisons mothaw sent in the lawst parcel." The cootie isn't at all fastidious. He will bite the British aristocrat as soon as anybody else.
The fresh underthings had been boiled and sterilized, but the immortal cootie had come through unscathed and in all its vigor. Corporal Wells raised a pathetic wail: "Blimme eyes, mytie! I got more'n two 'undred now an' this supposed to be a bloomin' clean shirt! Why, the blinkin' thing's as lousy as a cookoo now, an me just a-gittin' rid o' the bloomin' chats on me old un.
I made a limited acquaintance with that pretty, playful little creature, the "cootie," who was to become so familiar in the trenches later on. He wasn't called a cootie aboard ship, but he was the same bird. Perhaps the less said about that trip across the better. It lasted twenty-one days. We fed the animals three times a day and cleaned the stalls once on the trip.
I wonder if Susan tampered but no, I won't suspect her of such a thing. "Miranda Pryor spent an afternoon here a few days ago, helping me cut out certain Red Cross garments known by the charming name of 'vermin shirts. Susan thinks that name is not quite decent, so I suggested she call them 'cootie sarks, which is old Highland Sandy's version of it.
After that comes the "cootie carnival", better known as the "shirt hunt." The cootie is the soldier's worst enemy. He's worse than the Hun. You can't get rid of him wherever you are, in the trenches or in billets, and he sticks closer than a brother. The cootie is a good deal of an acrobat. His policy of attack is to hang on to the shirt and to nibble at the occupant.
"You know perfectly well that Underhill's a cootie of the most pronounced order, and that, when he found out that Jill hadn't any money, he chucked her." "But why should Derek care whether Jill was well off or not? He's got enough money of his own." "Nobody," said Algy judicially, "has got enough money of his own.
To draw some disagreeable job, as: I clicked a burial fatigue. Communication trench A trench leading up to the front trench. Consolidate To turn around and prepare for occupation a captured trench. Cootie The common, the too common, body louse. Everybody has 'em. Crater A round pit made by an underground explosion or by a shell. Cushy Easy. Soft.
He was not Raymie; he was Major Wutherspoon; and Kennicott and Carol were grateful when he divulged that Paris wasn't half as pretty as Minneapolis, that all of the American soldiers had been distinguished by their morality when on leave. Kennicott was respectful as he inquired whether the Germans had good aeroplanes, and what a salient was, and a cootie, and Going West.
I do not know what the men of Antioch said about it; but he speaks of it as unkempt and, in the Gibbonistic euphemism, populous; indeed, names the loathsome cootie outright, which Gibbon was much too Gibbonish to do. In the nature of things, this was a libel. I read lately an article, I think by an Irish writer, on the eccentricities of youthful genius.
"Wouldn't that be perfectly lovely now!" says the buddy with the medal, diggin' his elbow enthusiastic into the ribs of the one nearest him. "Wonder if we couldn't persuade him to make it two drill nights a week instead of one. Eh, old Cootie Tamer?"
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