"Wot!"
"You know that if you're seen moving you'll get a bullet across here——"
"I don't care a damn," said Bubb.
"But I do," muttered Flanagan. "Next time I come out sniping I'm going to take a man with me; one that won't give a position away when he has got a sore tummy——"
"I'm not going to move no more," said Bubb. "I'm going to be as quiet as a sandbag. Ooh-wooh!"
"How's your cramp now?" asked Flanagan, when Bubb had kept quiet for a good ten minutes. "Gone, is it?"
"It's 'opped it," said Spudhole with a laugh. "Blimey!"
Both men cowered to earth giggling nervously as the bomb burst, scattering a cloud of dust over them. A second shell burst, and a third.
"They must have spotted us," said Flanagan, frowning at the fields.
"If they have it's all up."