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Updated: June 26, 2025
So it seemed best for us to wear these uniforms only where soldiers congregated who would know us for the gawks that we were and forgive us our military trespasses. Then a real day came when our Red Cross duties took us to General Pershing's headquarters. For Americans during the year 1918, "Somewhere in France," will mean the Joan of Arc country.
Lucy gave a little hysterical laugh. 'Well, said Purcell loudly, 'there'll be plenty of young people there. What have you got to say against them? 'A set of frights and gawks, said Lucy, sitting bolt upright in a state of flat mutiny, and crushing her handkerchief on her knee between a pair of trembling hands.
And catching sight of Lapoulle and Pache, his companions in the squad: "Don't stand there like great gawks, you fellows! Come in here and take something to wash the dust out of your throats."
"Certainly; I might almost say I know it will, for my dreams hardly ever fail." "Noel, I could hug you if that dream could come true, I could, indeed! To be servant of the first General of France and have all the world hear of it, and the news go back to the village and make those gawks stare that always said I wouldn't ever amount to anything wouldn't it be great!
He was very sullen about the matter for some twenty-four hours, but at last he began to soften little by little, and finally he said: "Well, it was not funny, and there was no sense in those gawks making themselves so facetious over it. I tell you I was angry in earnest for awhile.
It is not necessary to linger long in the low concert halls and brothels where girls scarce in their teens are made the prey of the rum-inflamed passions of brutes old enough to he their grandsires; where old roues, many of whose names are a power "on 'change," bid against each other for half-developed maids whose virginity is certified to by a physician; where green gawks from the country are made drunk with cheap wines sold to them at fancy prices by courtesans, plucked and turned over to a subsidized police if they protest; where hundreds of pure girls are entrapped, drugged and ruined every day of the world.
And that's why I'm saying there ain't his like in this western country, and that's as true as your name is Sandy Bayne." "Well, my name is Sandy Bayne, all right, but how did he come out at the Calgary trials?" "Aw, those damned gawks! They don't know a good dog from a he-goat! They don't know what a dog is for, or how to use him."
But the provincials are gawks from country towns, without discipline, and with no more knowledge of the woods than we have." "But Edmund and I are from a town like them." "You've keppit gude company, since you've been with the Rangers, and have been long enough with them to look and act like the rest of them. One would take you for hunters and woodsmen."
'Us may tich of her now, I rackon, said Betty in her most jealous way; 'Annie, tak her by the head, and I'll tak her by the toesen. No taime to stand here like girt gawks. Don'ee tak on zo, missus. Ther be vainer vish in the zea Lor, but, her be a booty!
"Ben," said Donald, "just listen to the green gawks singing and whistling that 'Yankee Doodle. They think it is the finest tune on earth, and the latest martial music from England. I remember the bit of a surgeon who wrote that in fun two years ago, just to make sport of them." "Well, Donald, I like it myself; and as our boys have taken it up, they're apt to fight well under it."
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