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Caps and puttees are distributed with like impartiality, and we dismiss, the unfortunate ones growling and grumbling in discreet undertones until the platoon commander is out of hearing, whereupon the murmurs of discontent become loudly articulate. "Kitchener's Rag-Time Army I calls it!" growls the veteran of South African fame. "Ain't we a 'andsome lot o' pozzie wallopers? Service?
The 'Uns 'ave 'ad two fer our one. ALBERT. They got dug-outs as deep as 'ell, it don't touch 'em. Don't talk silly. POZZIE. Oi reckon we got to go through with it. But they didn't ought to give a chap short rations. That's what takes the 'eart out of a chap. April 17, 1916. Thank you very much for your letter of a week ago, which I should have tried to answer before if I had had time.
Look at old Pozzie. 'E's flesh an' blood, and don't turn an 'air! For myself I'll go potty one o' these days. You don't take no notice, do you, old lump o' duff? POZZIE. Oi woulden moind if I got moy rations; but a chap can't keep a good 'eart if 'e's got an empty stummick. You keep yer 'eart in yer stomach, don't yer? You ain't got no mind, you ain't.
The retaliation is just dying down. CHARACTERS. ALBERT Round-eyed, rotund, red-cheeked, yellow-haired, and deliberate; in civil life probably a drayman. JIM Small, lean, sallow, grey-eyed, with a kind of quiet restlessness; in civil life probably a mechanic with leanings towards Socialism. POZZIE A thick-set, low-browed, impassive, silent country youth, with a face the colour of the soil.
I used to wonder oftentimes how I was going to get up there, and then by force of habit would find myself lying alongside the observer sheltering behind two or three bricks. From this pozzie one of my boys saw a German Staff car pass Crucifix Corner.
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