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That is, if Fritz don't drop a 'whizz-bang' on me, and send me to Blighty. Sometimes I wish I would get hit, because it's no great picnic out here, and twenty-two months of it makes you fed up. "It's fairly cushy now compared to what it used to be, although I admit this trench is a trifle rough. Now, we send over five shells to their one.
"It was while I was there," said the padre, "that Biimy came down the line and was admitted to the hospital with a cushy wound in the fleshy part of his arm. He'd have been well in three weeks and back with his battalion in a month, if it hadn't been for the doctors. It's entirely owing to them that he's a deserter now." "Malingered, I suppose," said Mackintosh.
We were in Brigade Reserve, which sounded very comfortable, but which was not so "cushy" as it sounded. It meant that we had to do all the unloading of supplies and ammunition at the supply depot and at the station, and also find the very large guards which were absolutely necessary, as the native was a diligent and skilful thief.
"Very unfortunate for her," Maurice said "because she had nearly secured a roving English peer who had enjoyed 'cushy' jobs during the war, and had been recruiting from the fatigues of red-taping at Deauville and now, with this whisper of a spoiled skin, he had transferred his attentions to Coralie and there was trouble among the graces!"
Once, I said for her Mother Goose's "Cushy cow bonny, let down your milk!" and after hearing the whole verse several times she began to repeat it to herself, but said, "Tushy tow bonny, let down Nona's milk!" And she always corrects me if I omit her name. She often says, "Bobby Shafto's done to sea; tome back, marry Nona!" with a very facetious expression.
"I'll try that little trick myself now the good weather's come on if we don't get a move on soon." "Too damn risky!" "Listen to the kid. It'll be too damn risky in the trenches.... Or do you think you're goin' to get a cushy job in camp here?" "Hell, no! I want to go to the front. I don't want to stay in this hole." "Well?"
Everyone was happy and contented at these tidings; all you could hear around the billets was whistling and singing. The day after the receipt of the order we hiked for five days, making an average of about twelve kilos per day until we arrived at the small town of 0' . It took us about three days to get settled and from then on our cushy time started.
'Just a "cushy" wound, that'll bring him home on a three months' leave, and give her the bore of nursing him. 'Cicely, you are a hard-hearted wretch! said her brother, angrily. 'I think Marsworth and I will go and stroll till the motor is ready. The two men disappeared, and Cicely let herself drop into an arm-chair.
The presence of the R.A.M.C. men did not seem to disturb the raiders, because many a joke, made in an undertone, was passed along the winding column, as to who would be first to take a ride on one of the stretchers. This was generally followed by a wish that, if you were to be the one, the wound would be a "cushy Blighty one."
"Not even a corporal. You see, I've learned to be a private of sorts, and that satisfies my ambition." "Well, I give it up," said Peggy. "Though why you wouldn't let dad get you a nice cushy job is a thing I can't understand. For the life of me I can't." "I've made my bed, and I must lie on it," he said quietly. "I don't believe you've got such a thing as a bed." Doggie smiled.
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