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But Shorty did not come to him. He was lying on the ground two or three feet away, with his own rifle hugged to his shoulder. "If there be anything in religion," he muttered fiercely, "let me shoot straight this time, God." "That's all right," he shouted; "you've got him covered fine. Fire, son, fire an' hit the perisher. You ain't wobbling."
The selection was four or five miles ahead; the near corner of the ram-paddock about two miles farther still; whilst a perisher on the plain is seldom hard to find in a bad season, when the country is stocked for good seasons.
We had seen a lot of each other at one time, of course, but in the last two years I hadn't had so much as a post card from him. I put all this to Jeeves: "Odd, his coming to me. Still, if he did, he did. No argument about that. It must have been a nasty jar for the poor perisher when he found I wasn't here." "No, sir. Mr. Fink-Nottle did not call to see you, sir." "Pull yourself together, Jeeves.
"Was the man who deserted you the man who deliberately strained my boy's arm by twisting it?" Sir Roland asked. "Yes." "What is his name?" "Gastrell Hugesson Gastrell, that's the name the brute is known by. He always was a blackguard a perisher! I shall refuse to betray any of the others; they are my friends. But Hugesson Gastrell don't forget that name, Sir Roland.
"It was one of the big ones, and it came right through the wire on top of him." The gruff voice was soft. "Poor bairn!" Il n'y en a plus. There is no more. French phrase signifying complete absence of. Largely heard in estaminets near closing time. Naploo. Original pure English phrase signifying the perisher has run out of beer. Napoo.
When we were resting at Quality Street near Loos, for example" he paused a moment, and with a playful dig from his banana-like thumb nearly knocked me on the floor "why, name of a dog! There you have a case in point!" "A case of a swanker?" "A case of one of those spies. We caught the perisher. Begad, we did!"
"Have you an orderly to spare?" he asked. "Any quantity," said the other bitterly. "They've been detailed for weeks, and done nothing. You can have one with pleasure. It'll give the perisher something to do." "Thanks," said Peter; "I want to send a note, that's all. May I write it here?" He was given pen and paper, and scribbled a little note to Julie.
Ma'am, pore Joe means well, but 'e can't 'elp bein' a perisher but" and here the Old Un raised and shook a feeble old fist "I've a good mind t' ketch 'im one as would put 'im t' sleep for a fortnight I've a good mind " But Mrs. Trapes caught that tremulous fist and drawing the Old Un's arm through her own, turned to the door.
There is but one resource for such a martyr. He must do "a perisher." That is precisely what the master of a lonely boat in an odd angle of the Coral Sea was doing when a joyful sail appeared a dove-like messenger from civilisation and shops. It was a pitiable famine. No one had had a smoke for a week.
"Crikey!" said he at last. "Is that you, sir, or ain't it?" "How much?" demanded Ravenslee gruffly. "Crumbs!" said the chauffeur. "Sir, if you ain't you, all I say is I ain't me!" "Aw what's bitin' ye, bo?" growled Ravenslee. "Well, if this ain't the rummest go, I'm a perisher!" "Say, now, crank up d' machine an' beat it while d' goin' 's good. How's that, Joe?" "Lord, Mr.
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