THE BOY WAS SLIDING DOWN GOLIATH
But the Boy brought up at the bottom, bump, and said,
"Why?"
So the Junior Subaltern shot his neck as well as he could, which wasn't very well, because he hadn't much experience yet, and he answered,
"Because I've nobody to tell off only you, because I'm Junior. Damb!"
So that showed the Junior Subaltern was learning soldier, which is to shoot your neck and say damb in That Country.
But the black Captain stood where he was, very proud and plucky, because he had done his duty, and it was a pleasure, too; and he said,
"And now some more about George!" and he chucked his chest, although it had no medals on it, and went on,
"I am George's cousin; only George doesn't like me to talk about it. So George is going to make a little war for me in Where-George-is, and I am to go and get killed or a medal; and either way I will be worthier to be George's cousin."