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Updated: June 26, 2025
The soldier proceeded: "Well, you don't know where it's comin' from. 'E's up on one of these 'ere roofs, 'idin', an' you're down 'ere ... exposed. 'E kneels be'ind the parapet, an' 'as a shot at you, an' then 'e 'ops along the roof to another place, an' 'as another shot at you.... You don't 'alf begin to feel a bit jiggery when that's 'appening'...." There was no malice in that soldier.
And then from among the branches, while I hung on to the foot of the ladder to keep it firm, David unbosomed his disquiet to me about enlisting. "Most o' the chaps round here has gone," he said, "an' I don't like staying be'ind. Seems as though you were hanging back like. There's my wife and there's my mother down the village and my aunt; and not a man to do anything for 'em but me.
We'd picked up our tramp, an' was about four mile be'ind 'er. I noticed the wardroom as a class, you might say, was manoeuvrin' en masse, an' then come the order to cockbill the yards. We hadn't any yards except a couple o' signallin' sticks, but we cock-billed 'em. I hadn't seen that sight, not since thirteen years in the West Indies, when a post-captain died o' yellow jack.
He surged through the water towards the boat. " well square it!" he foamed. "I'll well square you, you lump o lard with the heart of a maggot!" He stopped, steadying down to a fierce scorn. "And he would ha well squared it only for you messin about with that blasted knife o your'n be'ind him." "He would ha well squared it only for you knockin the blasted knife up!" shrilled the fat man.
"Beats 'im?" asked Tilda, and suddenly, still erect on her chair and looking down on the woman, felt her courage flowing back full and strong. "He's a beast, then." "You musn' talk like that," said the woman hurriedly, with a glance back at the half-open door. "Hut he's 'ard if you cross 'im an' the child's pay bein' be'ind 'and " "What's your name?" demanded Tilda. "Sarah 'Uggins."
He came in a mysterious sort o' way that I didn't like: looking be'ind 'im as though he was afraid of being follered, and speaking in a whisper as if 'e was afraid of being heard. He wasn't a man I liked, and I was glad that the watch and chain was stowed safe away in my trowsis-pocket. "I've 'ad a shock, watchman," he ses. "Oh!" I ses.
But now 'e seems to be trying to get hout of bed and leave his back be'ind 'im, as that 'ealing woman told him; and, like all of us, he isn't meant to cast off his own spinal column, bad as 'tis. His work won't 'urt 'im, if he takes it quiet; but, as a nurse trained in the Royal 'Ospital, I must hinsist it is bad for any man to try to do Delsarte gymnastics on a hempty stomach of a morning."
None of us ever admitted that we had more than one or two, even when we knew we had a great many. It was also considered less disreputable to have one "big one" than two small ones. "It's the Gink's fault 'e swarms with 'em. I was standin' be'ind 'im in the ranks the other day an' I saw three of 'em crorlin' out of 'is collar up 'is neck.
"Now, in my feyther's time," resumed Mottle-face serenely, "the roads vos vorse than they are to-day, ah! a sight vorse, an' as for 'ighvaymen Lord! they vos as thick as blackberries blackberries? I should say so! Theer vos footpads be'ind every 'edge gangs of 'em an' 'ighvaymen on every 'eath " "God bless my soul!" exclaimed the fussy gentleman, "so many?"
He is gone, vanished, escaped in the night, and, like the base fabreec of your own poet's veesion, he lives no trace is it trace? be'ind! A leetle earth is so easily bitten down; a leetle more is so easily carried up into the garden; and a beet of nice strong wire might so easily be found in a cellar, and afterwards in the lock! No, Senhor Cole, I do not expect to 'ang.
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