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Updated: June 15, 2025
What wi' wadin' to the knees in the trench mud, getting soaked through wi' rain, not 'aving a decent meal all day, crawlin' about in mud an' muck, an' gettin' chivvied an' chased all over the landscape wi' shells an' shrapnel an' machine-guns an' rifles, I've just about 'ad enough o' this King an' Country game. The Signaller paused a moment.
'Oh, for God's sake stop jawing, I cried. 'Everything's against me. I haven't had a bit of luck since I came on shore at Leith. What's the harm in a poor devil with an empty stomach picking up some money he finds in a bust-up motor-car? That's all I done, and for that I've been chivvied for two days by those blasted bobbies over those blasted hills. I tell you I'm fair sick of it.
Long before it came the Emigrant had recognised the ungainly man. It was Dicky Loony, the town butt. He had chivvied the imbecile a hundred times in just the same fashion, yelling "Black Cat!" after him as these young imps were yelling though why "Black Cat" neither he nor the imps could have told.
Well, of course, we could fake up some sort of barricade for the door, but then we should have all the trouble over again to-morrow and the day after that. Personally I don't propose to be chivvied about indefinitely like this, so I propose that we let them come into the dormitory, and see what happens. Is this meeting with me?" "I think that's sound," said Mike.
Nurses chivvied about with little squeals of laughter as they bumped into each other out of the shadow world, but not losing their heads or their hands, with so much work to do. Framed in one or other of the innumerable doorways stood a Belgian nun, with a white face, staring out upon those flitting shadows.
Only the forage cap must have been lost in the convulsion, for the dead man was bareheaded. 'The poor old beggar! said John, with a touch of natural feeling; 'I would give ten pounds if we hadn't chivvied him in the train! But there was no sentiment in the face of Morris as he gazed upon the dead.
"And get chivvied by the pigtails, same as we did down at that other place." "Oh, but perhaps they'll be more civil here," I said. Smith burst out laughing. "Why, didn't they pelt you, and shy mud at the skipper?" "Oh, if you're afraid, you can stop," I said. "Tanner and I can go." "Afraid!" cried Smith, doubling his fist and holding it within an inch of my nose.
We chivvied the girl round the sofa and caught her near the door and kissed her. She scratched our face, yelled police, murder, and fire, and fled from the room. Our friend came in almost immediately. He said: "I say, J., old man, are you drunk?" We told him no, that we were only a student of the drama. His wife then entered in a towering passion. She didn't ask us if we were drunk.
Smivvle, shaking his head and sighing again, "on account of the lamentable affair of a month ago, the Bow Street Runners have assiduously chivvied me from pillar to post and from perch to perch, dammem! Had a notion to slip over to France, but the French will insist on talking their accursed French at one, so I've decided for America.
So from island to island the Percy Edward cruised, looking more disreputable every day, until, as the months went by, she began to resemble, in her tattered gear and dejected appearance, her fatuous passengers. At last, after being chivvied about considerably by the white and native inhabitants of the various islands touched at, the forlorn expedition reached Fiji.
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