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Says I to 'im, 'Colonel, says I, 'let me go the Front, along o' the Reg'ment. 'To the Front you shall go, says 'e, 'an' I only wish there was more like you among the dirty little devils that bang the bloomin' drums. Kidd, if you throw your 'coutrements at me for tellin' you the truth to your own advantage, your legs 'll swell."
'You're an oncivilised man, me son. Whin a gurl's married, all her kit an' 'coutrements are truso, which manes weddin'-portion. An' 'tis the same whin she's runnin' away, even wid the biggest blackguard on the Arrmy List. 'So I made my plan av campaign. The Colonel's house was a good two miles away.
He'll get tired av findin' our kit foul an' our 'coutrements onproperly kep'. "'We will not let him go, sez they. "'Thin take him, sez I, 'an' a dashed poor yield you will get for your throuble. "'Is he not misconductin' himself wid Slimmy's wife? sez another. "'She's common to the rig'mint, sez I. 'Fwhat has made ye this partic'lar on a suddint?
"Qui' sho," murmured Trooper Bear with a seraphic smile, "an' wha' I have in my 'place of departed spirits, my tummy, is better. Glor'us mixshure. Earned an honest penny sheven sheparate times cleaning the 'coutrements of better men ... 'an look at me for shevenpence' ..." and he slept happily on Dam's shoulder.
One thing, however, became troublesome; you see there was a cursed set of ups and downs on the road, and as the riding coutrements were so bad with a great many of the weddiners, those that had no saddles, going down steep places, would work onward bit by bit, in spite of all they could do, till they'd be fairly on the horse's neck, and the women behind them would be on the animal's shoulders; and it required nice managing to balance themselves, for they might as well sit on the edge of a dale board.
He'll get tired av findin' our kit foul an' our 'coutrements onproperly kep'." "We will not let him go," sez they. "Thin take him," sez I, "an' a dashed poor yield you will get for your throuble." "Is he not misconductin' himself wid Slimmy's wife?" sez another. "She's common to the rig'mint," sez I. "Fwhat has made ye this partic'lar on a suddint?"
"A dhirty man," he was used to say, in the speech of his kind, "goes to Clink for a weakness in the knees, an' is coort-martialled for a pair av socks missin'; but a clane man, such as is an ornament to his service a man whose buttons are gold, whose coat is wax upon him, an' whose 'coutrements are widout a speck that man may, spakin' in reason, do fwhat he likes an' dhrink from day to divil.
Whin a gurl's married, all her kit an' 'coutrements are truso, which manes weddin'-portion. An' 'tis the same whin she's runnin' away, even wid the biggest blackguard on the Arrmy List. "So I made my plan av campaign. The Colonel's house was a good two miles away.
'A dhirty man, he was used to say, in the speech of his kind, 'goes to Clink for a weakness in the knees, an' is coort-martialled for a pair av socks missin'; but a clane man, such as is an ornament to his service a man whose buttons are gold, whose coat is wax upon him, an' whose 'coutrements are widout a speck THAT man may, spakin' in reason, do fwhat he likes an' dhrink from day to divil.
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