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'That's me, said the other without checking his spade. 'And blow me! you must be Duffy Jem Duffy. 'That's right, said Duffy. 'But I didn't know you'd joined, Beefy. 'Just a week or two after you, said Beefy. 'Didjer know boss's two sons had got commissions? Joined the Sappers an' tried to raise a company out o' the works to join. Couldn't though. I was the only one.
"I never thought of that," said the manager thoughtfully; "but, say, that would be an elegant stunt. Let's do it." "Not with my legs," said William. "Didjer ever see 'em? They're about as fat as fishing rods." "All the better. It'll bring the house down, I tell you."
Didjer ever know a woman that wouldn't stop boys fightin' or get somebody to stop 'em? She stops 'em all right, and keeps Pete in after school to give him a spiel about being good and a credit to the school and his Ma and Pa, and right there she plants the idea in Pete about getting a medal.
A sudden skidding swerve as the team wheeled nearly jerked him off his seat, the crackling bursts of half a dozen light shells over the plain behind him distracted his attention for a moment further. Then he leaned in towards Donovan, "What was that?" he yelled. "What didjer say?" Donovan repeated his remark. "Gawd bless old 'Cut-the-Time."
The Gunner was holding forth on Tobacco Gifts. 'It's like this, see, he said. 'An' I knows it's so 'cos I read it myself in the paper. First you cuts a coo-pon out o' the paper wi' your name an' address on it. . . . 'But, 'ere, 'old on, put in the Wheel Driver. ''Ow does my name get on it? 'You write it there, fat'ead. Didjer think it growed there?
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