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 Rh "'Well, well,' 'e sez. 'Wot is yer trouble, lad?' I grabs me tummy 'ard, an' sez I'm ill. 'You are,' sez 'e. 'Yeh got corditis, bad. Yeh need a pill. Before yeh go to sleep,' 'e sez, 'to-night, Swaller the bullet, son, an' you'll be right.'

"'Ow's that fer rotten luck? But orl the same, I ain't complainin' when I thinks it out. I seen it weren't no way to play the game, This pullin' out. We're orl uv us in this to see it thro'. An' bli'me, wot we've got to do, we'll do.

"But 'oles an' burrers! Strike! An' this is war! This is the bonzer scrappin' uv me dreams! A willin' go is wot I bargained for, But 'ere it seems I've died, someway, an' bin condemned to be Me own Wile Rabbee fer eternity.

"But 'orspital! I tell yeh, square an' all. If I could meet the murderin' ole Turk 'Oo's bullet sent me there to loaf an' sprawl, An' dodge me work, Lord! I'd shake 'an's wiv 'im, an' thank 'im well Fer givin' me a reel ole bonzer spell.