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Updated: July 11, 2025
'Now aren't you glad you didn't go to the circus? They rang the front-door bell; when White opened it, they stunned him with a sand-bag. Then Bones held up a large hand. 'Wait! I waited. 'Who is White? 'The butler. 'I will take his statement. Fetch the butler. Johnson trotted off obediently. Left alone with me, Bones became friendlier and less official.
We would drop on top of the Turks' bombs a coat or sand-bag, and it was surprising how little damage was done. If you put a sheet of iron on top of one, or a sand-bag full of earth, it would make the explosion very much worse, but loose cloth would spread out and make a spring-cushion by compression of the air above.
The wheels were taken off and laid on the ground in the rear of the pieces; sand-bag revetments were built up in front of the guns, and each crew divided into two reliefs. One relief was required to be constantly at the gun and always ready for instant action.
It was on a dark night, while he was settling a small score against one Kelly, a mere acquaintance, that he first fell foul of Constable Keating, whose beat took him through the regions which James most frequented. James, having "laid for" Mr. Kelly, met him in a murky side-street down Clerkenwell way, and attended to his needs with a sand-bag.
"When he has been waiting for his sweetheart about a quarter of an hour I will call his name in a woman's voice, and at his first step towards the desert do you break his neck with the sand-bag. We have plenty of time yet, for it must still be a good half hour before midnight." "So much the better," said the other.
He felt a chivalrous desire to rescue the unsuspecting stranger from the peril that menaced him. Joe, too, imitating the stealthy motion of the pursuer, swiftly gained upon him, overtaking him just as he had the sand-bag poised aloft, ready to be brought down upon the head of the traveler.
In the sand-bag front were two apertures, called the door and the window, which overlooked the Ægean Sea. For this reason the name "Seaview" had been painted above the door in lively moments by the preceding tenant, whose grave was visible lower down the Bluff.
In its place, where there had been a crisscross of trenches and sand-bag shelters for their machine-guns and a network of barbed wire, there was now an enormous crater, hollowed deep with shelving sides surrounded by tumbled earth heaps which had blocked up the enemy's trenches on either side of the position, so that they could not rush into the cavern and take possession.
Good-thing," said her son, "not even if you couldn't see a thing; but don't you welsh on any of your plays we'll make that ten thousand good if I have to get a sand-bag, and lay out a few of these lads around here some dark night." "But anyway you can't do much to relieve them. I don't know but what it's honester to be poor while the authorities allow such goings on."
If I don't walk my legs off, I shan't get to sleep tonight at all." "If you think I'm going to help you walk your legs off, my lad, you're mistaken. I propose to stroll gently home, and go to bed." "Every little helps," said Mifflin. "Come along." "You want to keep an eye on Jimmy, Arthur," said Sutton. "He'll sand-bag you, and lift your watch as soon as look at you.
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