Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 15, 2025
The casual sort of shelling I had had to fear at Vimy Ridge was nothing to this. This was the real thing. And then I thought that what I was experiencing for a few minutes was the daily portion of these laddies who were all aboot me not for a few minutes, but for days and weeks and months at a time.
Awa' wi ye, laddies, and dae something. Awa' you too, Dickson, or I'll tak' the road mysel'." "I've got orders," said the Chief of Staff, "no' to move till the sityation's clear. Napoleon's up at the Tower and Jaikie's in the policies. I maun wait on their reports." For a moment Mrs. Morran's attention was distracted by Dickson, who suddenly felt very faint and sat down heavily on a kitchen chair.
Ah, Johnnie Bethune, puir fellow! Ye maunna take on about sic like laddies, or ye'll greet your e'en out o' your head. It's mony a braw man beside Johnnie Bethune has gane Johnnie-Bethune's gate." Though unaccustomed to the Scotch accent, I could make out enough of this speech to be in nowise consoled by it.
Soon this was transformed into a wrecker's den, and then into the hiding-place of a harried Covenanter fleeing religious persecution. Daring things to do swarmed in upon their minds, for Edinburgh laddies live in a city of romantic history, of soldiers, of near-by mountains, and of sea rovings. No adventure served them five minutes, and Bobby was in every one.
I hope you will not think, those of you, my friends, who may read what I am writing here, that I am exalting my lad above all the other Britons who died for King and country or, and aye, above the brave laddies of other races who died to stop the Hun. But he was such a good boy!
Tommy's offer was to swop jackets every morning for a week or two, and thus properly attired to do the mourning for him." The dominie paused, and regarded his guest quizzically. "Sir," he said at length, "laddies are a queer growth; I assure you there was no persuading Lewis that it was not a right and honorable compact."
And then the good man would laugh at the simple raillery and the confusion of the boys. "Dinna answer, laddies; for least said soonest mended, and ye mind where leears go to. But I'm thinkin' ye wadna be the worse for a jug of milk to wash down your dinner, and there's some strawberries in the garden up by, just about ripe."
And so I used what influence I had, and did not think it wrong to employ at such a time, and in such a cause. For I knew that if they sent me to the Hieland Brigade they would be sending me to the front of the front line for that was where I would have to go seeking the Hieland laddies! I waited as patiently as I could. And then one day I got my orders!
The range is changed, and the pointing, too. We never see old Fritz but we know he's getting the visiting cards we send him." They were amazingly calm, those laddies at the telephones. In all that hideous, never-ending din, they never grew excited. Their voices were calm and steady as they repeated the orders that came to them.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. The love Leeby bore for Jamie was such that in their younger days it shamed him. Other laddies knew of it, and flung it at him until he dared Leeby to let on in public that he and she were related. "Hoo is your lass?" they used to cry to him, inventing a new game.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking