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(_Heard in the Ranks_)
Scratches in the dirt? / No, that sounds much too nice. / Oh, far too nice. / Seams, rather, of a Greyback Shirt, / And we're the little lice / Wriggling about in them a week or two, / Till one day, suddenly, from the blue / Something bloody and big will come / Like -- watch this fingernail and thumb! -- / Squash! and he needs no twice.