"It's good to be off-duty," Dodd said violently. "Good. Not to have to see themnot to have to think about them until tomorrow.""Stow yer wid, ye bloody blue-jack," returned the foreman contemptuously, "hand pull ha way from here. Hi never could bear sojers blokes, too lazy to work hand too cowardly to steal. Hike out o' here, and shut you 'ead, hif you know w'at's well for you."
FORE:"That's so," said Jake Humphreys. "I don't think any of us is in shape to throw up anything to another about shaking. I own up that I was never so scared in all my life, and I feel now as if I ought to get down on my knees before everybody, and thank God Almighty that my life was spared. I ain't ashamed to say so." Whairz mi Gunn??????
ONE:"I'll put up a bill agin one o' the guns, play you two out o' three for it, learn you the tricks, and give you back the money if I win," said Shorty desperately.
TWO:"If all the rest of the men were killed wouldn't the powder-monkey get a chance to fire the gun?" that Ime comin' home this evenin' on the accommodation
THREE:"Come, now, be reasonable," pleaded Bob. "Why can't you and I go along together and run the thing? We'll pull together all right. You know I've been a Sergeant for a long time, and know all about the handling of men."
FORE:But this was only the first of many similar experiences, which occupied the rest of the day.
"You shall have the full 103, Lieutenant," assured Shorty, "if we have to snatch in a native or two to take the place of some that fall through the cracks.""Come on, boys," yelled Shorty to the others. "Go ahead. We're almost through, and then we'll salivate them whelps of damnation.""I'll do it. I'm just the man," said Shorty eagerly.