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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357640" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jim's Girl</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">''Oo is that girl,' sez Digger Smith,<br>That never seems to bother with<br>No blokes: the bint with curly 'air?<br>I've often seen 'er over there<br>Talkin' to Missus Flood, an' she<br>Seems like a reel ripe peach to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Not that I'm askin'' ... 'Ere 'is eyes<br>Goes sort uv swiv'ly, an' 'e sighs.<br>'Not that I'm askin' with idears<br>Uv love an' marridge; 'ave no fears.<br>I've chucked the matrimony plan,'<br>'E sez. 'I'm only 'arf a man.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This Digger Smith 'as fairly got<br>Me rampin' with 'is ''arf a man' rot.<br>'E 'as a timber leg, it's true;<br>But 'e can do the work uv two.<br>Besides, the things 'e's done Out There<br>Makes 'im one man an' some to spare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knoo 'is question was jist kid.<br>'E'd met this girl; I know 'e did.<br>'E knoo Jim Flood an' 'er was booked<br>For double when the 'Un was cooked.<br>But, seein' 'er, it used to start<br>'Im thinkin' of another tart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh, 'er?' sez I. 'She is a pearl.<br>I've 'eard she used to be Jim's girl;<br>But she was jist a child when Jim<br> <br>Got out. She 'as forgotten 'im.'<br>I knows jist wot is in 'is mind,<br>An' sez, 'Wade in, if you're inclined.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'E give me such a narsty look<br>I thought 'e meant to answer crook;<br>But, 'I ain't out for jokes,' sez 'e<br>'Yeh needn't sling that stuff to me.<br>I only was jist thinkin' - p'r'aps...<br>There's some,' 'e sez, 'that sticks to chaps.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Some girls,' sez 'e, 'keeps true to chaps,<br>An' wed 'em when they've done with scraps,<br>An' come 'ome whole. Yeh don't ixpec'<br>No tart to tie up with a wreck?<br>Besides,' 'e sez ... 'Well, any'ow,<br>That girl's all right; I know it now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I know,' sez Smith. 'I got it right.<br>Jim used to talk to me at night<br>About a little girl 'e tracked.<br>Er name is Flo. Ain't that a fact?<br>That's 'er. I know she writes to 'im<br>Each mail. She ain't forgotten Jim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I'd like to swap my luck for Jim's<br>If 'e comes 'ome with all 'is limbs.<br>An' if 'e don't - well, I dunno.<br>I've taken notice uv this Flo,<br>An' wonder if' - 'e stares at me <br>'If there is more like 'er' sez 'e.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, Digger Smith as learned a lot<br>Out fightin' there, but 'e ain't got<br>The cunnin' for to 'ide 'is 'eart.<br>'E's too damn honest, for a start;<br>'Is mind's dead simple to a friend.<br>I've read 'im through from end to end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've learned from things 'e 'asn't said<br>Jist wot's been running in 'is 'ead.<br>I know there is a girl, somewhere:<br>Some one 'oo 'ad the 'eart to care<br>For 'im when 'e went to the war.<br>I know all that, an' somethin' more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know that since 'e came back 'ere<br>'E 'asn't seen that girl for fear<br>She'd turn 'im down - give 'im the bird,<br>An' 'and 'im out the frozen word,<br>Because 'e's left a leg in France;<br>An' 'e's afraid to take the chance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, not afraid, p'r'aps, but - shook.<br>It's jist the form 'is nerves 'ave took.<br>Now 'e's been watchin' Flo an' seen<br> 'Er style, an' 'ow she's always keen<br>For news uv Jim. Then 'e starts out<br>To 'ope, an' 'esitate, an' doubt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'E wonders if 'is own girl spoke<br>Jist this same way about 'er bloke.<br>'E wonders if in 'is girl's eyes<br>That same look came; an' then 'e sighs,<br>An' dulls 'is senses with that dope<br>That 'arf a man ain't got no 'ope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'E makes me tired. But, all the same,<br>I tries to work a little game.<br>'Look 'ere,' I sez. 'About this Flo.<br>Jim mightn't come back 'ome, yeh know.<br>You 'ave a fly; yeh're sure to score;<br>Besides, all's fair in love an'war.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Sling that!' 'e sez; but I goes on:<br>'Ole Jim won't blame yeh when she's gone.<br>'E knows, the same as me an' you,<br>These silly tarts, they can't keep true.'<br>I piles it on, until I've got<br>'Im where I want 'im - jumpin' 'ot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An' then 'e says, ''Ere, sling that talk!<br>I might be groggy in me walk;<br>But if yeh say them things to me<br>I'm man enough to crack yeh; see?'<br>'Righto,' sez I. 'That was me plan.<br>Now wot about this 'arf a man?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'E stares at me, an' then sez, slow,<br>'Wot is yer game? Wot do yeh know?'<br>'Nothin',' I tells 'im, 'only this:<br>When there's a waitin' tart to kiss<br>Yeh're only 'arf a man; but when<br>There's blokes to fight, yeh're twenty men.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Wot tart?' 'e asks. 'Yeh mean this Flo?'<br>'P'r'aps not,' I sez. 'You ought to know.'...<br>I waits an' lets me words sink in.<br>An' then- 'e beats me with that grin.<br>'Match-makin', Bill?' 'e laughs. 'Oh, 'Ell!<br>You take up knittin' for a spell.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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That never seems to bother with
No blokes: the bint with curly 'air?
I've often seen 'er over there
Talkin' to Missus Flood, an' she
Seems like a reel ripe peach to me.

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