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In the days when our GOR was in Hamoaze House one of our signalmen, Bill Lambert, had to take a message into another room where a meeting of some top brass was in progress; assorted crowns and pips were there together with their ATS drivers. The meeting was about to break up and Brigadier Barbary picked up his baton and asked, "Where's me 'at?"
'Sam, she says to me, 'we got a rise, and we must act up to it. 'Right you are, I says; 'but how are you goin' to start? 'Well, she says, 'the first thing you've got to do is to leave off wearing billy-cocks on Sundays and buy a box-hat, 'Polished 'ats, I says, 'is for polished 'eads, and mine was ordered plain, 'If there's no polish on your 'ead, says she, 'that's a reason for having some on your 'at.
"An' a gentleman's clothes is a world o' trouble and anxiety to him, and takes up most o' his time, what wi' his walking breeches an' riding breeches an' breeches for dancing; what wi' his coats cut 'igh an' his coats cut low; what wi' his flowered satin weskits; what wi' his boots an' his gloves, an' his cravats an' his 'ats, why, Lord love ye, he passes his days getting out o' one suit of clothes an' into another.
Then 'e comes 'ome sich a figur, with 'oles in 'is trousers an' 'is 'ats squeezed flat an' 'is jackets torn. But Master Charles aint a bit better. Though 'e's scarcely able to walk 'e can ride like a jockey, an' needs more mendin' of 'is clo'se than any six ordinary boys.
Shrig seated at the little Cobbler's bench, with a guttering candle at his elbow and a hat upon his fist, which he appeared to be examining with lively interest. "Sir," said he, as Barnabas approached, wondering, "I'm taking the liberty o' looking at your castor." "Oh!" said Barnabas. "Sir, it's a werry good 'at as 'ats go, but it's no kind of an 'at for you to-night." "And why not, Mr. Shrig?"
But it 'ad to be yours or mine, and sir, axing your pardon, but there's a good many 'ats to be 'ad in London jest as good as yourn, for them as can afford 'em, but theer ain't another castor like mine no, not in the U-nited Kingdom." "Very true," nodded Barnabas, "and no hat ever could have had a more useful end, than mine." "V'y yes, sir better your castor than your sconce any day," said Mr.
"You take 'em off," said the mate, sharply. "I won't let you wear 'em." "I beg your pardin," said Jones, with great politeness, "we got these 'ere 'ats for the weddin', an' we're a-goin' to wear 'em." He took the offending article off and brushed it tenderly with his coat-sleeve, while the furious mate looked assault and battery at the other three.
"This is the best thing 'ats happened to me in ten years. Hey, there, you, Dick! Rush around the corner an' get a canvas painted make it big fifteen by twenty feet, and great big black and red letters. Come now, be quick! Take down the words: 'Strike! Make each letter two feet long! 'Our Freaks Fight Grandmother Cruncher! They Refuse To Exhibit Along With The Old Lady!
"Well, I'm jiggered," said Alan inelegantly; "I thought the first thing a girl would want to do would be to go and blab about it all over the place." And he regarded Marjory as if she were a natural curiosity. "And yet," she continued, "I suppose I ought to tell, because I think you behaved so well about it, making friends after it. And then think what you did for Curly." "Ra ats!
We have not the slightest indication of the place, meantime, nor of where the catastrophe happened." "Perhaps the French copy will be more explicit," suggested Lady Helena. "Here it is, then," said Lord Glenarvan, "and that is in a language we all know." The words it contained were these: troi ats tannia gonie austral abor contin pr cruel indi jete ongit et 37 degrees 11" LAT
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