Cawley wrote a bit more, the pen scratching the paper.

I wrote a bit of a letter to my father at the time, which was to this purpose:-

He wrote a bit, and acted as war correspondent for a Chicago paper, and spent a year or two in South-Eastern Europe.

I shall never forget that Mr. Cross did not belie his name, however, or that Sam Clemens wrote a bit of doggerel about him.

I found a barrel to lean on, and I sat with my back to the water and wrote a bit, just to acclimate myself faster.