They would make for the "funk-pits," as they call the dug-outs, just as the gunners of any other Power would.

We could, I think, have smiled at a direct hit from an 18-pounder, provided we had been down our funk hole at the time; but, of course, a direct hit from a "Johnson" would have snuffed us completely (mattress and all).

Boggley coming behind convulsed with laughter, merely remarks that I am a funk-stickwhich, I take it, means the worst kind of coward.