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Updated: May 7, 2025
But they were pleased, beyond question, as was evidenced by the buzzing conversations during the intermission. "Great show, eh?" "I'll tell the world!" "Hey, Joe! You old son-of-a-gun! How'd you get down here? Thought you were wiped out up at Wipers." "Huh! Not me! They haven't made the shell that can get me. Look who's over there with a nice cushy wound to keep him out of trouble.
It is needless to say no one volunteered, because it is anything but a cushy Job. I began to feel uncomfortable as I knew it was getting around for my turn. Sure enough, with another grin, he said: "Empey, you and Wheeler are due, so come down into my dugout for instructions at six o'clock."
'E ain't bloody well goin' to do 'is bloody solderin' in a 'cushy' job in Blighty like some of 'em. Not after rysin' us. Do it wiv 'is bloody self like a man; an' that's wot 'e is." The speaker glared accusingly; but his declaration agreed too well with what all thought for any one to take exception to it. The new Commanding Officer had been wounded at St.
So making bombs could not be called a "cushy" or safe job. After making several bombs, the Professor instructs the platoon in throwing them. He takes a "jam tin" from the fire step, trembling a little, because it is nervous work, especially when new at it, lights the fuse on his striker. The fuse begins to "sizz" and sputter and a spiral of smoke, like that from a smouldering fag, rises from it.
It's Piper's idea that five hundred pounds is. 'E says 'twould ease 'is conscience to carry on the pore old Colonel's dog-breeding. As for me, I'd just as lief 'ave 'im in a good job what gentlefolk call 'a cushy job' with a gentleman like this Major Radmore seems to be. But there! Piper's just set on them nasty dogs, and 'e's planned it all out." "Five hundred pounds is a great deal of money."
The top of the bus was crowded, and we talked "shop" together. Sixth Division's having a pretty cushy time, what? So you were at Mons! I suppose there's no chance of our missing the boat. Yes, it was a pretty fair scrap Smith? He's gone. Silly fool, wanted to have a look round Full of buck? Rather! Yes, heard there's a pretty good show on at the Frivolity Beastly cold on top of this old wheezer.
"Get us three firsts to King's Crawss, and 'ave a label ready to smudge on the winder, w'ile me an' my girl gets 'im through to the platform, nice and cushy." Supported on each side, with flaccid legs just able to move in turn, Melchard was guided to a bench some way down the platform, and seated between two bolstering forms to which the contact was disgusting.
And so he puts in his time hoping for a wound that will be "cushy" enough not to discommode him much and that will be bad enough to swing Blighty on. Sometimes when he wants very much to get back he stretches his conscience to the limit and it is pretty elastic anyhow and he fakes all sorts of illness. The M.O. is usually a bit too clever for Tommy, however, and out and out fakes seldom get by.
"You were wounded, too, last spring, weren't you?" queried the King's Messenger, burrowing in his suit case for his flask. "Squat down at the end there got your glass?" He measured out two portions of whisky and from the rack produced a bottle of soda. "Say when..." Standish nodded. "Thanks whoa! Yes, I got a couple of 'cushy' wounds and three months' leave."
I might as well be A.S.C. I see myself counting ration bags while the battalion is charging with fixed bayonets; and in the evening sending up parties of weary laden carriers over shell-swept areas, while I myself stay behind at the Dump. Damn! Damn!! Damn!!! Then I shall receive ironical congratulations on my "cushy" job. Have just seen the battalion off. I don't start for another five hours.
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