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"I'm not blaming you," continued the other. "I reckon I understand, old boy. But are you goin' to shoot at him?" "I am that," was the reply. "Well, I hope you get him," said Dave. "The chaps'll forget the other business then. They didn't like it, you know nobody would." "It's not because I care for them or what they think " began Mills. "I know it's not," interrupted Dave.
"Now, mester!" shouted the barrel-man thickly, in response to Edwin's airy remark, "these 'ere two chaps'll shunt off for th' price of a quart!" He indicated a couple of barrel-tenants of his own tribe, who instantly jumped down, touching their soiled caps. They were part of the barrel-man's machinery for increasing profits. Edwin could not withdraw. His very cowardice forced him to be audacious.
"Look here, Elijah, I'm not such a fool as to go over there and get killed; th' other chaps'll lick the Germans all right." "That's the answer of a coward," replied Elijah Butterworth; "if everybody said that, the country would be robbed from us, and we should have those German devils ruling over us." "No fear of that," laughed Tom, and yet he felt uncomfortable.
Might I ask why you take the matter to heart so? Jim hesitated. 'Better have it out, Jim, said Tony. 'These chaps'll keep it dark all right. And Jim entered once again upon the recital of his doings on the previous night. 'So you see, he concluded, 'this two pound business makes it all the worse. 'I don't see why, said Welch.
I don't know onything aboot London and as you are nae stranger, I might as well gang wi' you, as bother onybody else to show me roun'." "There's some of thae chaps'll fairly enjoy this," said Davie, nodding in the direction of some of the delegates. "That's the way they agreed to adjourn sae already. They jist leeve for the conferences. It's the time they like.
As I view it, me having listened careful to what his honour the Admiral there says best respects to your honour them chaps'll never come a-nigh that place till it's night again, or at any rate, dusk, which'll be about seven o'clock this evening. But they may watch, during the day, and it 'ud be a foolish thing to have a lot of men about.
These chaps'll learn manners when they join the colours; and you're lucky in the regiment you're going to there's no smarter in the service. I have made one or two uncomfortable journeys in my time, but I can recall nothing quite so comfortless as the march with that ragged and disreputable contingent along Piccadilly, across Hyde Park, down the Edgware Road, and so on to Paddington Station.
"How what do you mean, boatswain?" I demanded sharply. "Well, Mr Blackburn," he returned, "what I means is that if we don't find the wrack the chaps'll be so disapp'inted that, in their rage, they may rise upon us, the afterguard, and try to take the ship from us." "What good would that do them?" I demanded.
"I had obliged to find me a place whar I could hire out them chaps," the miserable old man before him went on, garrulously. "They's nothin' like mill work to take the davilment out o' young 'uns. Some of them chaps'll call you names and make faces at you, even whilst you' goin' through the mill yard and think what they'd be ef they wasn't worked!
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