"It was like this 'ere. I'd been two weeks on a stretch in the
trenches, and never a drink--wot you might _call_ a drink--the 'ole
blinkin' time. Goin' back through the billets after we was relieved I
seed a place where they had liquor for sale, and I goes up to the door
to get a drink. Well, I 'adn't no more than took 'old o' the knob when
a blinkin' Jack Johnson come over and blew the 'ole blinkin' 'ouse out
of my 'and!"
And with an evident sense of personal grievance not yet allayed the
speaker pouched his "sooveneer" and relapsed into gloomy taciturnity.