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Updated: June 6, 2025
As it is, wot with the stuff we're a-getting and the shortage of tea and the distance I 'ave to go for water, and " "Well, what do you expect?" A bitter voice from round the traverse rudely interrupted the discourse. "We make pumps to pump water not dead rats. Wasting my time, that's what it is. Where 'ave I put it? In that there perisher Smithson's dug-out, and 'e can 'ave it for his dinner."
Without another word Joe stooped, and lifting the old man beneath one arm, bore him up the stairs regardless of his croaking protestations and fierce invective. "I said a piggy-back oh, you blightin' perisher, I said a piggy-back," he snarled, his resplendent shoes twinkling in futile kicks. "Oh, Joe, there's times when I fair 'ates ye!"
Five seconds later, with a pricking sensation in his scalp and a mouth oddly dry, he was muttering excitedly into the ear of the now infuriated Ginger. "A man where, you ruddy perisher?" he grunted savagely. "Fust yer tells me if you goes and looks at the 'Uns you can see 'em; and then you says there's a man in the nettles. You ought to be locked up." "There is, I tell you.
Then he most times went in an awful perisher took a month to it, and was never sober day or night the whole time. When he'd spent all his money he'd crawl out of the township and get away into the country more dead than alive, and take the first job that offered.
On our reaching the wagons, it was unanimously resolved that the selection should be patronised. This being so, there was no hurry rather the reverse for the selection was not to be reached till dusk. You will understand that the bullock drivers' choice of accommodation lay between the selection, the ram-paddock, and a perisher on the plain.
"So, Guv," piped the Old Un cheerily, "we're out for the criminal's gore specially me. We're goin' to track the perisher to 'is 'orrible doom "'Where'er he be To th' gallers tree Oh, Guv, we mean t' bring him; An' laugh with j'y When nice an' 'igh The blinkin' bobbies swing 'im." "And you think you know who it was?" "I do, Guv, I do!" nodded the Old Un.
Get that dressing on, Bill; turn over, mate we'll give yer a drink in a minute; but one thing at a time, old pal, that's my motto. Always merry and bright, as the perisher said in the play." Back in the trench, pulled in from the wire where the work goes on, an officer's electric torch shines on the stretcher bearers working with clumsy gentleness on the quivering body.
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