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Updated: May 8, 2025
'Almost the same spot where the trawlers were scuppered, answered Roy. 'Just so. If Fort Hamidieh doesn't open out, we ought really to be all right. We shall be in broader waters. He took out his watch and glanced at its luminous dial. 'In three minutes we shall know one way or the other, he added.
One Boche, who broke through, he chased over half the country apparently, and shot him down. The amusing thing is that when he had killed the Boche he searched his pockets, and found a cake, addressed to a bombardier in another battery. The Huns had scuppered this battery and ransacked their dug-outs. The bombardier was somewhat surprised last night when the gunner handed him his lost cake."
At the worst he pinched your trousers. But Brother Boche is a different proposition. Since he butted in, war has descended in the social scale. And modern scientific developments have turned a sporting chance of being scuppered into a mathematical certainty. And yet and yet old Mucklewame is right. One hates to be out of it especially at the finish.
"I don't think Durrance has got scuppered," said he, as he rose from his chair. "I know what I shall do," said the colonel. "I shall send out a strong search party in the morning." And the next morning, as they sat at breakfast on the verandah, he at once proceeded to describe the force which he meant to despatch.
A fortnight ago old man Nicholas descended from his mountains and scuppered his enemies there at Kuprikeui, where the main road eastwards crosses the Araxes. That was only the beginning of the stunt, for he pressed on on a broad front, and the gentleman called Kiamil, who commands in those parts, was not up to the job of holding him.
"He left Halfa eight weeks ago, eh?" he said gloomily. "Eight weeks to-day," replied the colonel. It was the third officer, a tall, spare, long-necked major of the Army Service Corps, who alone hazarded a cheerful prophecy. "It's early days to conclude Durrance has got scuppered," said he. "One knows Durrance.
It smashed up three or four yards of parapet, and scuppered the three poor chaps I mentioned." "Have you located her?" "Yes. Just behind that stunted willow, on our left front. I fancy they bring her along there to do her bit, and then trot her back to billets, out of harm's way. She is their two o'clock turn two A.M. and two P.M." "Two o 'clock turn h'm!" says the Gunner major meditatively.
If it were not for the rain I would try the firestep. The men are having a rotten time again no proper shelter from the rain, and short rations, to say nothing of remarkably good practice by the Boche artillery. C , just out from England, got scuppered this afternoon. A good boy made his communion just before we came in.
Even when examining dhows one had to be on one's guard, and it was best not to board them to leeward and so run the risk of having their big, bellying mainsail let go on top of you and getting scuppered while entangled in its folds.
He must be cached in the bush somewhere, waiting his chance to grab our gold and incriminate Paulette, as common sense told me she expected. I was sure as death he had a gang somewhere, for no outsider would try to run that business alone; Collins and Dunn might have been on their way to join it the night they got scuppered, very likely: they were just devils enough.
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