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Anyway, he'd be damned if he'd permit recruiting for riflemen among his dragoons, it being contrary to law and common sense. "I've a dozen young fellows who might qualify," said Colonel Thomas bluntly, "but if the law permits Mr. Boyd to take them my regiment's volleys wouldn't stop a charge of chipmunks!" We all laughed a little, and Captain Fancher said: "Minute Men are Minute Men, Mr. Boyd.
"Got the goods on him at last," exulted Bart. "The only man in the old Thirty-seventh that has played the yellow dog," commented Billy. "The regiment's well rid of him. He'll never dare to show his face again." "He can fight for Germany now," said Frank, "and if he does, I only hope that some day I'll run across him in the fighting." "You won't if he sees you first," grinned Billy.
You false-'earted proletarian publicist," he says, shakin' his finger at 'im for he was reelly annoyed "I'll teach you to defile what you can't comprebend! When my regiment's in a state o' mutiny, I'll do myself the honour of informing you personally. You particularly ignorant and very narsty little man," he says, "you're no better than a dhobi's donkey!
It was the night-herd, the discarded, second-choice mounts of the regiment's officers, a motley band that had served their country through more than one enlistment, and that, hearing the familiar summons some limping, some hobbling had followed the dun cayuse to answer it. Now, nooses were twisted about the noses of the horses. The troopers mounted. The trumpet sounded the advance.
He led them toward the Ajmere Gate, and by the time that the regiment's luggage came along in wagons, with the little rear-guard last of all, it was too late to run and warn people. Outram's Own had gone at high noon, and nobody the wiser! There was no music as they marched and no talking.
On the very last day of the regiment's remaining at Meryton, he dined, with other of the officers, at Longbourn; and so little was Elizabeth disposed to part from him in good humour, that on his making some inquiry as to the manner in which her time had passed at Hunsford, she mentioned Colonel Fitzwilliam's and Mr.
But that convinced nobody, although it did the colonel sahib no harm in the regiment's opinion not that he needed advocates. We were all ready to die around Colonel Kirby at any minute. Even Gooja Singh was ready to do that. "Does the colonel sahib accept the situation?" one of the troopers asked. "Aye, for he must," said Gooja Singh; and I could not deny it.
I don't hanker to ship in with a damned mud crunching outfit, but the cavalry's full, so I guess this regiment's better than none, so trot out your papers and I'll sign 'em." He told them he was forty and slipped by. I was on recruiting service at the time he applied for enlistment. It was Old Scotty's great ambition to be a sniper or "body snatcher" as Mr. Atkins calls it.
They're going to Richmond, or some place, while we fight all the Johnnies. It's some dodge like that. The regiment's got orders, too. A feller what seen 'em go to headquarters told me a little while ago. And they're raising blazes all over camp anybody can see that." "Shucks!" said the loud one. The youth remained silent for a time. At last he spoke to the tall soldier. "Jim!" "What?"
As the term of this regiment's foreign service was shortly to expire, and as at the time there was a prospect of further troubles in South Africa, my husband did not resign his commission on succeeding to the peerage, as his mother wished him to do, for he said that this was a step which he could consider when the regiment returned home, as it would do shortly.
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