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protests Piddie . `` Why , everyone knows that you -- '' `` That 's where you 're dead wrong , Piddie , '' I breaks in . `` What everybody really knows is that while most of the young hicks who 've been Plattsburged into uniforms are already across Periscope Pond helpin ' swat the Hun , I 'm still floatin ' around here with nothing worse than car dust on my tailor-built khaki . Why , even them bold Liberty bond patriots who commute on the 8:03 are tired of asking me when I 'm going to be sent over to tell Pershing how it ought to be done . But when it comes to an old crab of a swivel chair major chuckin ' ` bomb-proofer ' in my teeth -- well , I guess that 'll be about all . Here 's where I get a revise or quit . Right here . ''