- "Mad as bleedin' atter. Gawd 'elp the 'Un as gets in
'is way today,"
observed a tousle-headed cockney fitter. -
- "My own mag. was nearly shorting then," he said. -
"Beegles" in affair de coeur with spylady Marie Janis.
- "While men are decent to me I try to be decent to them,
regardless of race, colour, politics, creed or anything else", asserted
Biggles curtly.
"I've travelled a bit, and taking the world by and large,
it's my experience that with a few exceptions there's nothing wrong with
the people on it, if only they were left alone to live as they want to
live."
Biggles defending his friendship with ex-opiumsmuggler Li Chi.
- "Fiddlesticks, my grandmother!" he snapped. "Are you
suggesting I couldn't get a turkey if I tried?"
Biggles hunting for a turkey by means of an airplane, on the wrong
side of the lines, the day before Christmas 1917.
- "Your new uniform fits badly, if I may say so," von
Stalhein observed critically.
Biggles smiled faintly. - "I haven't had time to see
my tailor about it yet," he confessed, apologetically.
Biggles disguised as a medieval flunkey, plum-coloured jacket, knee
breeches, and wig.