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"Govinment! Govinment! nice sort of govinment, payin' each other four hundred a year for followin' Asquith and robbin' the landowners to get the money God lumme." He paused to light a filthy clay pipe.
They held the hill till all their men were safe, and then, dashing down the other side, they jumped into their saddles and made off, carrying their wounded with them. They were but twenty men, and we four hundred" A "Tommy" sitting at the speaker's feet looked up and said: "What are yer makin' sich a song abart it far? Lumme, them Horstraliars are as Hinglish has hi ham!"
"Go it, Guv!" he shrieked, "go it! In an' out again, that's it Gorramighty, I never see sich speed. Oh, keep at 'im, Guv make 'im cover up sock it into 'im, Guv! Ho, lumme, what footwork you're as quick as lightweights oh, 'appy, 'appy day! Go to it, both on ye!"
The sapper rushed him round a bend, and then crouched down. "Twenty seconds," he gasped, "an' me out of training. Lumme! wot a life." The next instant the ground quivered as if an earthquake had occurred; a thunderous roar shook the air, while the blast of the explosion nearly knocked them down. "Nothin' wrong with that there ammonal," remarked the Sapper professionally. "'Andy stuff it is too.
"It's a talisman," replied Paul, who, having come across the word in a book, had at once applied it to his treasure. "Lor' lumme!" cried Barney Bill. "And it was for that bit of stuff yer ran the risk of being flayed alive by yer loving parents?" Paul was quick to detect a note of admiration underlying the superficial contemptuousness of the words.
"Put these on and spoil his little game. It's raining a little now. Nobody'll see you, and as soon as you git aboard you can borrow some of the men's clothes." "That's the ticket, cap'n," said the man. "Lord lumme, you'll 'ave everybody falling in love with you." "Hurry up," said Tommy, dancing with impatience. "Hurry up."
If I ever see him again I'll wish for something for you; at least I would if vengeance wasn't wicked so there!" "Lor' lumme," said Billy Peasemarsh, "if there ain't another on 'em!" And now Willum came back, with a spiteful grin on his face, and at his back a policeman, with whom Mr. Peasemarsh spoke long in a hoarse earnest whisper. "I daresay you're right," said the policeman at last.
'Ow d'yer know? 'She's been tellin' people in the street. 'Go' lumme, said Jim, furious, 'if she dares ter touch a 'air of your 'ead, swop me dicky I'll give 'er sich a 'idin' as she never 'ad before! By God, give me the chanst, an' I would let 'er 'ave it; I'm bloomin' well sick of 'er sulks! He clenched his fist as he spoke. Liza was a coward.
"Lord lumme, that Miss Lackland ain't never satisfied. 'I'll take 'em on the Martha, says she, 'and you can go back and fill up again." "But I told her it couldn't be done," Munster went on. "I told her the Martha hadn't a license for recruiting. 'Oh, she said, 'it can't be done, eh? and she stood and thought a few minutes."
The brute took me at my word and sent me back to the battalion. I rejoined on the Somme again just as they were going back for the second time in that most awful part of the line. Many of the old faces were gone. Some had got the wooden cross, and some had gone to Blighty. I sure was glad when old Wellsie hopped out and grabbed me. "Gawd lumme, Darby," he said.
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