cur-r-r-l

Updated: May 16, 2025

In his softer moments Driscoll tells us that it used to "cur-r-r-l" before he had the "faver" in Burmah, and on such occasions we assure him that it "cur-r-rls" even yet. It is more polite to agree with him than to cross him and a lot safer.

A. G. (Alfred Greenwood) Hales - Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900): Letters from the Front