We were occupying a support line, early in 1918, and a party of us was
detailed to repair the barbed wire during the night.
A Cockney found himself holding a stake while a Cornish comrade drove
it home with a mallet.
Suddenly a shell exploded a few yards from the pair and both were very
badly wounded.
When the Cockney recovered consciousness he was heard to remark to his
comrade in misfortune, "Blimey, yer wants to be more careful wiv that
there mallet; yer nearly 'it my 'and wiv it when that there firework
exploded."--_A. A. Homer, 16 Grove Place, Enfield Wash, Middlesex._