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Moreover, on returning to New Amsterdam, he paraded up and down the streets with a crew of hard swearers at his heels sturdy bottle companions, whom he gorged and fattened, and who were ready to bolster him through all the courts of justice heroes of his own kidney, fierce-whiskered, broad-shouldered, colbrand-looking swaggerers not one of whom but looked as though he could eat up an ox, and pick his teeth with the horns.
See them haunting the scenes of their former splendor, in hopes of a restitution of estates, like ghosts haunting the vicinity of buried treasure; while around them you see the Young France, that have grown up in the fighting school of Napoleon; all equipped en militaire; tall, hardy, frank, vigorous, sunburned, fierce-whiskered; with tramping boots, towering crests, and glittering breast-plates.
Fuselli looked enviously towards the kitchen and thought of the day when he would be a non-com too. "I got to get busy," he said to himself earnestly. Overseas, under fire, he'd have a chance to show what he was worth; and he pictured himself heroically carrying a wounded captain back to a dressing tent, pursued by fierce-whiskered men with spiked helmets like firemen's helmets.
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