" "Catch me trying the bloomin' place any other night!" grumbled Neddy.

There's sumthin' bloomin' odd takin' place out there in the fog, Captain Carlyle.

"He made a bloomin' good choice, sir.

Wilder believed it had been a Russian cruiser, and, of course, Jarvis blamed it to the "bloomin' 'eathen.

It ain't the individual, Nor the army as a whole, But the everlasting team-work Of every bloomin' soul.

[Illustration: Jack (who has been bowled by a ball which kept very low): "BLOOMIN' U-BOAT TACTICS!"

'Even them boys knock me about now, and 'alf a century ago I could 'ave cleared the bloomin' place.'

' The artist laughed a guttural laugh, and, fixing his pale blue porcelain eyes on Hubert, he said 'Yes; see I made no bloomin' error when I said you was a man of eddication.

Where swamp honeysuckles are bloomin' The breeze scatters sweets on the night, Like incense the evenin' perfumin', With fireflies fer candles alight.

'E wuz in the linen-closet, and 'ad disguised 'imself as a bundle o' bloomin' barth-towels.

'E's too bloomin' nyked.

" TOMMY (aside): "Takes 'erself for a bloomin' Zeppelin!"

[Illustration: A HANDY MAN MARINE;(somewhat late for parade): "At six o'clock I was a bloomin' 'ousemaid: at seven o'clock I was a bloomin' valet; at eight o'clock I was a bloomin' waiter; an' now I'm a bloomin' soldier!"

[Illustration: A HANDY MAN MARINE;(somewhat late for parade): "At six o'clock I was a bloomin' 'ousemaid: at seven o'clock I was a bloomin' valet; at eight o'clock I was a bloomin' waiter; an' now I'm a bloomin' soldier!"

[Illustration: A HANDY MAN MARINE;(somewhat late for parade): "At six o'clock I was a bloomin' 'ousemaid: at seven o'clock I was a bloomin' valet; at eight o'clock I was a bloomin' waiter; an' now I'm a bloomin' soldier!"

[Illustration: A HANDY MAN MARINE;(somewhat late for parade): "At six o'clock I was a bloomin' 'ousemaid: at seven o'clock I was a bloomin' valet; at eight o'clock I was a bloomin' waiter; an' now I'm a bloomin' soldier!"

So 'ere's our philosophy, simple an' plain: Wotever we 'ates in the bloomin' campaign, 'Tis balm to our souls, as we grumble an' cuss, To feel that the Boches are 'atin' it wuss.

A good day's work like this bucks him up wonderfully, he says, except when he comes down an awful whop in the darned old motor-bus, which is all right while she keeps going but no bloomin' use at all when she spreads her skirts in a ploughed field and smashes her new set of stays.

A bloomin' palace, as never I did see! . .

Well, I ain't agoin' ter leave my sossingers, not if 'e was a bloomin' archangel, see!

Renahnce ole Beelzebub an' all 'is bloomin' wirks!

I 'ates myself, I 'ates the world I live in, I 'ates the bloomin' muck 'ole I've landed into! MARY.

"Carnt yer keep still a minute," he cried indignantly; "blessed if you don't want lookin' after like a bloomin' kid.

That means that" and then perceiving from the blank look in the Frenchman's face the utter impossibility of ever making the matter clear to him, he turned to us with an appealing gesture, and asked: "Does any gentleman know the French for 'bloomin' idiot'?" A day or two afterwards, I happened to enter his omnibus again.

If any of your sisters was 'ere and you 'eard me call 'er a , would yer stand gapin' at me as if this was a bloomin' tea party!"