Part 22 (2/2)

”You're willing to risk it?”

”I'ood of my head to me! I can't remember the name of the last hospital I was at”

Ah, these hurried conversations sandwiched between my duties, when in four sentences the distilled essence of bitterness is dropped into my ear!

”Sister, ill they do with Pale him They won't operate”

”But ill happen to hi to risk his life to save his brain, can they still refuse?”

”They won't operate”

Pinker is full of grains of knowledge He has just discovered a wonderful justification for not getting up directly he is told off for a job

”I never refuse a nurse,” he said, as he thoughtfully picked over the potatoes (”Li'lall the sought-after small ones) ”I never refuse a nurse But I like to finish hts first--like Drake”

Pinker notices everything He took the grocer for a ride on the tra 'Tipperary,' an' the blood-vessels on his neck goin' fit to burst Weren't he, Bill?”

He appealed to Monk, whose nae

(By the way, I wonder when people will stop calling them ”Tommy” and call them ”Bill” I never heard the word ”Tommy” in a soldier's mouth: he was a red-coated man ”But every mate's called 'Bill,' ain't 'e, Bill?”)

From the cah the

”Halt!” and ”Left wheel!” and ”Right wheel!”

They float into the ward bearing the sense of heat and dust, and of the buainst the cas are finished and we scrub the enamel bowls in the annexe, one can see all the dairy up and down in a ring aeant cries out those things that my dairyo up ”Left wheel!” ”Right wheel!” And now, ”Cross your stirrups!” One out of every four of the

The seventh is off! It was a long fight He went almost round the horse's neck before he fell

We must win the in the in the war!

Every sort of price e--the pennies and farthings of fear and despair in odd places, as well as the golden coin of life which is spent across the water

All day long the words of co they bump and shout and sweat and play that charade of theirs behind the guns