"Oo's that blinkin' fool?" "The Padre.

"AND SHE SAYS, 'OH! WOT BLINKIN' GREAT EYES

Here stands a shed to fend the showers, An' screen our countra gentry, There Racer Jess, and twa-three whores, Are blinkin' at the entry.

His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonilie, His clean hearth-stane, his thrifty wifie's smile, The lisping infant, prattling on his knee, Does a' his weary kiaugh and care beguile, And makes him quite forget his labour and his toil.

It is the moon, I ken her horn, That's blinkin in the lift

You blinkin' conscripts, you! Black.

Four verbs found favour in my sight, Viz., "drat" and "dash" and "blow" and "blight"; While "blithering" and "blinkin'" were My only adjectival pair.

When you are wishful to be withering 'Tis hard to be confined to "blithering," And to express explosive thinkin' One longs for some relief from "blinkin'.

CHAPTER XXI Back from leaveThat "blinkin' moon"Johnson 'olesTommy and "frightfulness"Exploring expedition.

The fire wants mendin'" "Shut that blinkin' door.

[Illustration: "Someone's been <u>at</u> this blinkin Strawberry"] I came to an opening covered with an old sack.

CHAPTER XXI BACK FROM LEAVETHAT "BLINKIN' MOON" JOHNSON 'OLESTOMMY AND "FRIGHTFULNESS" EXPLORING EXPEDITION As I had expected, the battalion were just finishing their last days out in rest billets, and were going "in" the following night.

"WELL, GO UP THERE, THEN, AN' TALK TO YOUR BLINKIN' SCOTCH PALS.

Well, we takes that turn in pitch-dark shadow with all four wheels in the air, an' you'd 'a thought we was a blinkin' airplane a doin' stunts.

"'Bout a thousand years ago that was, an' not 'alf a beano'orse, foot and guns; no stinks, no blinkin' fireworks and old VON KLUCK gettin' 'ome pronto.

Like two needles in a blinkin' 'aystack clickin' every timean' 'taint as if the Gunners dossed down reglar with the Line either.

My mate 'e'd been a gardener; 'is roses wasn't beat; 'Is marrers was a marvel and 'is strorberries a treat; But w'en 'e leave 'is corliflow'rs an' lettuce to enlist, 'E said it was the lavender, 'is blinkin' bit o' lavender, A silly patch o' lavender 'e missed.

SO I SEZ, SMART LIKE, 'OUT O' SIGHT FROM THE MOMENT OF HIMPACT, SIR,' AN' 'E SEZ, 'GO BACK ON BOARD, YE BLINKIN' FATHEAD!'

DOES THE BLINKIN' IDIOT SAY WHO WE'VE BEEN UP AGAINST ALL THIS TIME?

In the Cotter's Saturday Night Burns has drawn a beautiful picture of his parents' household, the rest that came at the week's end, and the family worship about the "wee bit ingle, blinkin' bonnily."

First A.B. "WHY, THE BLOOMIN' FIRST-LOOTENANT WOULD MAKE US POLISH THE BLINKIN' THING.

THINK WOT A BLINKIN' FOOL YOU'D LOOK

Baby eyes blinkin' now at the canopys of their cribs will look up and see the blue sky above 'em cleft by the white wings of great ships of the air sailin' to and fro with no treacherous rocks to dash aginst, no forests to subdue or mountains to tunnel, no roads to break, to and fro, back and forth shining white aginst the crimson sunset, aginst the rosy dawn, and the cloudless noon.

'I shall resist on dat'fierce as a buck-rabbit, holdin' up his right hand, an' blinkin' his little 'cute eyes.

"It is the moon, I ken her horn, That's blinkin' in the lift sae