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Updated: June 26, 2025
But something came in the way of temptation, and he couldn't stand it, and ran away." The "something" was revealed by Sergeant McGillicuddy, with a pale face, while he was shut up with the Colonel in his office. "It's partly my fault, sir," said the Sergeant. "The fellow has been doing his duty pretty well, and yesterday, on the aviation field, the aviation orficer was praisin' him for his work.
Foive-and-twenty privits an' a orficer av the Line in review ordher, an' not as much as wud dust a fife betune 'em all in the way of clothin'! Eight av us had their belts an' pouches on; but the rest had gone in wid a handful av cartridges an' the skin God gave thim. They was as nakid as Vanus. "'Number off from the right! sez the Lift'nint.
"I followed the Captain with me eye, gentlemen, and I'm blessed if he didn't walk straight across the open and over the support trench. Then he drops into a bit of a shell-hole and I lost sight of him. Well, I waited and waited and no sign of th' orficer. The rocket goes up and our lads begin to come back with half a dozen Huns runnin' in front of them with their hands up.
Corporal Prag yet further improved the occasion, earning Dam's heartfelt blessing. "Don't you fergit it, Trooper Maffewson. I'm yore sooperier orficer. 'Ung indeed! You look after yer own farver an' don' pass remarks on yer betters. Why! You boozin' waster, I shall be Regimental Sargen' Majer when you're a bloomin' discharged private wiv an 'undred 'drunks' in red on yer Defaulter's Sheet.
'Elp for a wounded orficer! Damn you there! who are you fallin' up against? This is the Gordon 'Ighlanders what's left of 'em." Here and there an inkier blackness moving showed a unit that had begun to find itself again.
Think I'd come and ask you to do this if I didn't feel what a plucky young orficer you are? Why, the lads'll follow you anywheres. They like Mr Howlett, too, but do you think they'd follow him like they do you? Not they, sir." "It's very tempting," said Mark, hesitating. "Tempting, sir?
''Ow in 'ell d'you make that art? ''Cos I'm the medical orficer o' this 'ere ship. 'Ah, sez Number One, slow like and grinnin' all over 'is face and tappin' 'is nose. 'You means, doc., that I've no right to order the boys to be bled, wot? 'That's just 'xactly wot I does mean, sez the doctor, gittin' a bit rattled like." "I quite agree with him," I put in.
We'll visit this Lungtungpen to-night. "The bhoys was fairly woild wid deloight whin I tould 'em; an', by this an' that, they wint through the jungle like buck-rabbits. About midnight we come to the shtrame which I had clane forgot to minshin to my orficer. I was on, ahead, wid four bhoys, an' I thought that the Lift'nint might want to theourise.
"And the orficer there from the Revenoo cutter, he says: `You find the body o' young Mr Wrighton of the man-o'-war sloop, and there'll be the same reward for that." "Humph! I should have thought I was worth more than that," said the midshipman. "Ay, ay, sir!" cried Tom Bodger, who was squeezing his shirt and breeches as he talked.
"Yes, all on 'em," said Jecks; "and I don't want to use strong language afore one's orficer, who's a young gent as is allers thoughtful about his men, and who's beginning to think now, that with the sun so precious hot he'll be obliged to order us ashore soon for a drop o' suthin' to drink." I laughed, and Tom Jecks chuckled.
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