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Updated: July 11, 2025
"Get them to give you another, Tim," said he. "No knock-out drops, if I can help it." The men drank, and some one ordered another round. "Tim," said Orde, low-voiced, "get the crowd together and we'll pull out. I've a thousand dollars on me, and they'll sand-bag me sure if I go alone. And let's get out right off."
"Nor did that act of yours bring cannon fire," rejoined Captain Ribaut. "Then what did?" "It must have been that it just happened," replied the Frenchman. Private Berger stood leaning with his right hand on top of the sand-bag parapet. "Shall I get back on the fire step for another look?" Dick inquired. "Why not?" inquired Captain Ribaut, shrugging his shoulders.
Our enemies forced their way back into some of their old trenches in this outpost beyond their main lines, and in spite of the chaos produced by our shell-fire built up new parapets and sand-bag barricades, flung out barbed wire, and dug themselves into this graveyard where their dead and ours were strewn.
When the flesh becomes quite tender so that you can pinch it off, take them out of the shell, remove the sand-bag, and the gall, which you must be careful not to break, as it will make the terrapin so bitter as to be uneatable. Cut up all the other parts of the inside with the meat, and season it to your taste with black and cayenne pepper, and salt.
Wait till I come back and you shall go to church with the biggest bunch of roses that ever were pinned to a feminine chest. I wonder when that will be. We have heaps of humour out here. You should have seen me this morning, sitting on the gun-seat while my batman cut my hair. A sand-bag was spread over my shoulders in place of a towel and the gun-detachment stood round and gave advice.
Finding that his new parish was extensive and scattered, he had abandoned Fusilier Bluff, and, choosing the most central spot, had built himself a sand-bag hovel somewhere in the Eski Line. Struth! Everything was the limit. I went to bed.
When everything was in her she was somewhat heavily laden, but with the prospect of a long voyage before them they were unwilling to leave either water or provisions behind. All climbed on board. The sand-bag which served as her anchor was hauled up, the oars got out, and they pulled away to the northward, clear of the reefs. The sails were then hoisted.
'I suppose I ought to look at it in that way. But I do wish I knew exactly what Buck meant by "fix". White at last condescended to give his mind to the trivial point. 'I guess he'll try to put one over on you with a sand-bag, he said carelessly. He seemed to face the prospect with calm. 'A sand-bag, eh? I said. 'It sounds exciting. 'And feels it. I know. I've had some.
Moreover, there is little danger up here of being slugged by our moth-eaten acquaintance of this morning. A man with trousers like his would not be allowed in. We shall probably find him waiting for us at the main entrance with a sand-bag, when we leave, but, till then " He turned with gentle grace to his soup. It was a warm night, and the roof-garden was full.
Over the low bush fence, over the unfinished sand-bag parapet at the southwest salient, spread the shrieking enemy like ants, stabbing and cutting. The Gardner guns, as Connor had said, were "fer the inimy," but the Lushai dandies were for the men that managed them that day; for the enemy came too soon in shrieking masses to a hand-to-hand melee.
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