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The captain's eyes surveyed the motley collection down the length of the bright table, then returned to her, gratefully: "This ain't anything. Only a little bloomin' " "Impromptu," suggested Heywood. "That's the word!" Captain Kneebone eyed them both with uncommon favor. "That's it, ye know. I just 'opped about Saigong like a jackdaw, picking up these impromptus.
"I've got a plan myself," he says, in a low voice, after the boy 'ad 'opped off, "and if I can't think of nothing better I'll try it, and mind, not a word to the boy." He didn't think o' nothing better, and one night just as we was making the Channel 'e tried 'is plan.
"I'm a going to give 'em my little present from Brighton, and it won't be 'ealthy when it goes off." There was a sudden sizzle as he lit the fuze, and he saw a stream of smoky light fly through the darkness and fall on to the ground in the centre of the dug-out. Then Samuel 'opped it, the sapper just behind him, up the shaft and into the trench.
He 'opped about that bar 'arf crazy, until at last the landlord and 'is brother, and a couple o' soldiers, and a helpless cripple wot wos selling matches, put 'im outside and told 'im to stop there. "He stopped there till Ginger and Peter came out, and then, drawing 'imself up in a proud way, he told 'em their characters and wot he thought about 'em.
'E give me the knock and 'opped it down the street to buy nuts." Mr. Blake moaned. "Two 'undred dollars and more gone pop, not to talk of the fifty dollars 'e would have won and me to get twenty-five of!" Archie took his tobacco and walked pensively back to the hotel. He was fond of Jno. Blake, and grieved for the trouble that had come upon him.
It's very rough and blowing like blue blazes, so I don't suppose there are many lame ducks left afloat poor devils.... With any luck we ought to get in to-morrow morning, though." The sleeping figure with the outstretched arms suddenly raised his head and blinked at Thorogood. "Where's the elusive Hun?" he demanded. "'Opped it," was the reply. "Otherwise vamoosed "
"I've got a plan myself," he says, in a low voice, after the boy 'ad 'opped off, "and if I can't think of nothing better I'll try it, and mind, not a word to the boy." He didn't think o' nothing better, and one night just as we was making the Channel 'e tried 'is plan.
It's a 'Un, yer fool or was before he 'opped it. He's dead." "A 'Un!" Samuel gazed stupidly at the speaker, and then peered at the motionless figure. "Wot's the sargint a-doin' of." A low question came from the officer. "Have you killed him, Melstead?" "I have that, sir; but I can't get my perishing bayonet out. Put your foot on his chest, Charlie, and heave. Again, so, heave."
Knowing you, and knowing 'ow respectable you 'ave always purtended to be, and also and likewise that you ain't no chicken "I thought 'e was going to 'ave a fit. He 'opped about, waving his arms and stuttering and going on in such a silly way that I didn't like to be seen with 'im. Twice he knocked my 'at off, and arter telling him wot would 'appen if 'e did it agin, I walked off and left him.
"It's like this," he began, "one of my mates, who 'as a brother what belongs to one of them boat-'ouses where they let out most anything to anybody what'll pay for it, 'eard in 'is dinner 'our as 'ow a young woman would 'ave gone to 'er death only 'er young man 'opped into the river and saved 'er life. That's what my mate told me, but 'e's a bit of a liar."
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