The officer, becoming annoyed at the delay, sent back the message: "Who's the fool who lost his gumboot?"
Pamphlets proclaimed the creed of open warfare and bade perish the thought of gumboot or of trench.
From a bottle she took from its hiding-place, Gumboot Annie poured out a generous dose.
Reeling from the shelter of a ruined cabin, "Gumboot Annie!"
The reply came back in due course: "Man lost his gumboot in the mud."
