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Yes, he can distinctly hear guttural voices, and an occasional clink, clink. The saphead has been reached, and digging operations are in progress. A whispered order comes down the line that M'Snape is to "investigate." He wriggles forward until his progress is arrested by a stunted bush. Very stealthily he rises to his knees and peers over.
Our fire-trench here runs round the angle of an orchard, which brings it uncomfortably close to the Germans. "It may only be a listening-post," explains Simson to his bombers, "with one or two men in it. On the other hand, they may be collecting a party to rush us. There are some big shell-craters there, and they may be using one of them as a saphead.
The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child. Just thirty days after my advent upon Barsoom we entered the ancient city of Thark, from whose long-forgotten people this horde of green men have stolen even their name.
A continuous group of craters stretched along No Man's Land, separating them from the wily Hun, for half the battalion front a group which we will call Outpost. The name is wrong, but it will serve. To the near lips of each crater a sap ran out from the front line, so that merely the great yawning hole lay between the saphead and the corresponding abode of the Germans on the other lip.
"However, that makes no difference; we had the package, and I had just started down-town to turn it in when I stopped to look at the excitement here. Lucky for me, or I'd never had a bite of this particular red apple, the sweetest pippin that orchard ever grew. Excuse me, gentlemen, if I do the saphead act by jinks! I FEEL like it." "The sentiment does you honor, Mr. Day," said Indiman, gravely.
Us married just five months, and her the nicest girl living, and you keeping us flat broke all the time, you damned old thief, so you can put money away for your saphead of a son and your wishywashy fool of a daughter! Wait, now! You'll by God take it, or I'll bellow so the whole office will hear it!
"If you'll excuse me, sir, I think I'd better go. I I I thank you. I only wish I'd met you before. You are at liberty to regard me as a saphead. Good-night, sir." "No! Hold on. Sit down, sit down, man. Have another drink." "I have had enough. In fact, since arriving in Benton I've had more than enough of everything." But I sat down. "Where were you goin'?" "To the hotel.
But when, like a saphead, you pull your new moniker, but with the same old initials hitched to it, and when on top of that you ask for George Spillane, which is Cheesy by his most popular alias when you do these things, why Chappy, it's your own fault. "Because Costigan is on then, bigger than a house. You've tipped him your hand, see?
MAURY: Shut up, you saphead. There is a connection. DICK: What is it then? I seem to have forgotten exactly. Something about the bees eating the clover. FOURTH YOUNG MAN: And the clover eating the mice! Haw! Haw! They're going to take the picture, I guess. No, that's afterward. OTIS: Cable, you take the ragtime bridesmaid. FOURTH YOUNG MAN: I wish to God I'd sent that present.
"Nor I wouldn't say he hadn't. But, like I was tellin' you " "You were tellin' me," growled the old man, "that that scoundrel of a Temple's fool of a girl is tryin' her hand at spellbindin' my gran'son Stephen! The dirty little saphead Look here, Blenham; you've got more gumption than most: tell me how far things have gone an' what Temple's game is.
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