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Updated: June 5, 2025
And when you do get a start on the decoratin', I shouldn't take too much care over it, you know, if I was you, because we 'ad to take the job for next to nothing or Mr Sweater would never 'ave 'ad it done at all! Nimrod now began to crawl about the house, snarling and grumbling at everyone. 'Now then, you chaps. Rouse yourselves! he bellowed, 'you seem to think this is a 'orspital.
"You can't even raise a sick 'eadache out o' that squeak. 'Arf an inch lower now an' you might 'ave 'ad a nice little trip 'ome in an 'orspital ship." "You're wrong there, Jack," said another solemnly. "That splinter hit fair on top of his nut, an' glanced off. You don't think a pifflin' little Pip-Squeak shell could go through his head?"
'She's 'ad a miss, she said, after looking at Liza. 'Is there anyone you could send to the 'orspital? 'Na, I dunno 'oo I could get at this hour? 'Well, I'll git my old man ter go. She called her husband, and sent him off. She was a stout, middle-aged woman, rough-visaged and strong-armed. Her name was Mrs. Hodges. 'It's lucky you came ter me, she said, when she had settled down.
Hucks, after a shrewd glance at her, "you'd best tell me the story in your own way." "That's what I'd like. You see," she began, "I been laid up three weeks in 'orspital the Good Samaritan, if you know it along o' bein' kicked by a pony.
"I wouldn't care if I 'ad no arms nor eyes nor legs, so long as I was 'ome in Blighty again. Why" and his voice dropped as he let me into the secret "I've 'ad a li'l boy born since I went out to the front, an' I never even seed the li'l beggar yet. Gawd, we in 'orspital is the lucky ones, an' any bloke what ain't killed ought to be 'appy and bright like what we is."
I know 'e don't mean it; 'e's as gentle as a lamb when 'e's sober. She smiled quite affectionately as she said this. 'Wot did yer do, then? asked Liza. 'Well, as I wos tellin' yer, I went to the 'orspital, an' the doctor 'e says to me, "My good woman," says 'e, "you might have been very seriously injured." An' me not been married eighteen months!
Her mind could not grasp such amazing thoughts, and "an accident" meant to her a calamity in which some one was run over or fell off a ladder and was carried to "the 'orspital." "A' accident, miss," she fluttered respectfully. "Is it?" "Yes," Sara answered, and she looked at her dreamily for a moment. But the next she spoke in a different tone. She realized that Becky did not know what she meant.
"It makes you think of 'eaven, don't it, miss," she said, with a sniff. "If I was rich I'd leave all my money to a 'orspital; that I would!" The speech suddenly reminded Ida of her own poverty, of which she had not thought very much, for the need of money is not very keenly felt in a hospital ward, where everything is "free, gratis, for nothing."
If he be a Cockney soldier he will repeat the word: "'Orspital, mate lor' luv ye, wish I wuz back!" That is the feeling. Talk to a thousand men after this war; ask them their experiences and they will tell you a thousand different stories. Ask them how they were treated in the hospital and there is but one reply: "Treated in hospital? Excellent!" There is only one word.
"We're goin' to the 'orspital all right. That's why I came to fetch yer. There's someone wants to see yer, ever so bad." "I know about the Good Samaritan," announced the boy. Tilda stared. "I bet yer don't," she contradicted. "He found a man, a traveller, that some thieves had hurt and left by the road. Going down to Jericho, it was; and he poured oil and wine into his wounds."
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