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Updated: June 16, 2025
The kindly, seemly woman remains at home in her drawing-room, papa slumbers if he is one of the stay-at-home sort; but Gerald, and Sidney, and Alfred are out in the drink-shop hearing talk fit to make Rabelais turn queasy, or they are in the billiard-room learning to spell "ruin" with all convenient speed, or perhaps they have "copped it" that is the correct phrase rather early, and they are swaggering along, shadowed by some creature half girl, half tiger-cat who will bring them up in good time.
"Old woman copped off," said Kitchell, "so much the better for us; no heirs to put in their gab; an' hold hard steady all here's the will, s'help me." The only items of importance in the will were the confirmation of the wife's death and the expressly stated bequest of "the bark known as and sailing under the name of the 'Lady Letty' to my only and beloved daughter, Moran." "Well," said Wilbur.
The corporal rounded the traverse. "Fritz has got another. Poor old Bill Trent. Copped clean through the 'ead." The corporal, followed by the strange uncouth being in sacking, with his leaves and bricks hanging about him, moved away, and Reginald followed.
"Copped it, you see, Dudley," remarked Rupert. "If there's any trouble knocking about I'm bound to stand in. But I guess I did my whack before I was knocked out," he added grimly. "Managed to work off sixty rounds, and when we started I found myself wondering if I had the strength to pick up a rifle." "What have you got?" asked his brother. "Bayonet thrust," was the reply.
There is but one pleasant moment in a drinking bout, and men make themselves stupid by trying to make that fleeting moment permanent. Bob cried, "Come on, sonny. Oh! what would I give for your thirst! Mine's gone! I'm three parts copped already. Come on. Soda, is it?"
He started on the last journey unnoticed save by the man standing next him; and Gawd above! what's the use? They'd been together for two years, share and share alike; and now the end. Putting up a bit of rusty wire round a sap. . . . "Easy, boy, easy. 'Ere, cut them ruddy braces away. 'Orl rite, old son, you've copped a Blighty. Thro' yer stummik Gor luv yer no.
"How long have you been in?" he asked, as he joined him, breathless. There was a malicious look in his eyes. "I went in when Pontius Pilate was a little boy, so you can reckon it out for yourself," said Pelle shortly. "My goodness! That was a good spell! And what were you copped for?"
"There ain't been nothin' fony about our trailin', bo," insisted Byrne, "an' whether Japs are bean collectors or not here's where de ginks dat copped de doll hiked fer, an if dey ain't dere now it's because dey went t'rough an' out de odder side, see." "Hush, Byrne," whispered Theriere. "Drop down behind this bush.
The nearer my throlly came to the rest-camp, the woilder was the shine, an' the louder was the voice av Peg Barney. "'Tis good I am here," thinks I to myself, "for Peg alone is employmint for two or three." He bein', I well knew, as copped as a dhrover. 'Faith, that rest-camp was a sight!
We was goin' over the top when a shell busted in front of us. It blinded me for a moment and then when I could see agin gorblimy it must 'a' copped 'im in the stomach an' ripped it open ugh! 'e was rollin' over wi' all 'is guts 'angin' out ugh! yer should 'a' 'eard 'im groan.
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