A diary without dates.

  • Bagnold, Enid.
Date:
[1918]
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Credit: A diary without dates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    now. Two orderlies came in with a stretcher to fetch Mr. Smith (an older man than Smiff and a more dignified) away to a convalescent home. Mr. Smith has never been to France, but walked into our ward one day with a sore on his foot which had to be cut. He was up and dressed in his bedraggled khaki uniform when the stretcher-bearers came for him. He looked down his nose at the stretcher. I don't much like the look of that, he said. The stretcher-bearers waited for him. He stood irresolute. I never bin in one of them, and I don't want to make a start. Its bad luck to be our name, called out Smiff, waving his amputated ankle. Better get your hand in ! Mr. Smith got in slowly and departed from the ward, sitting bolt upright, gripping the sides with liis hands. Some of the wards and the Sisters' bunks are charming at this time of the year, now that larkspur and rambler-roses are cheap in the market. But the love of decoration is not woman's alone. Through the dispensary hatchway I saw three empty poison-bottles, each with a poppy stuck in its neck.