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"Bedad, the Dowager couldn't have done it better," he said, "shweepin' by me without a 'By your l'ave, Pat'; and the master, callin' me 'Murphy' to my face, what he's never done since he left the rig'ment. I wonder what's the matter with Pat. 'Twill be 'Corporal' next." Nelly looked into the drawing-room. Her father was not there.
Brophy, "when it was himself that wrote the letther? There isn't anythin' about a corpse in it, Maggie asthore, is there?" "'C-o-r-p-s, spelled out Maggie, "corpse; yes, there it is, as plain as print." "Sure he manes 'rig'ment, "shouted out some well-informed person from the background. "'Corpse' that's what they do be callin' the army." "Oh, that indeed?" resumed Dan, much relieved.
"I ain't no gin'ral, nor corp'ral, nor nothin'," remarked Oncle Jazon to Colonel Clark, "but 'f I's you I'd h'ist up every dad dinged ole flag in the rig'ment, w'en I got ready to show myself to 'em, an' I'd make 'em think, over yander at the fort, 'at I had 'bout ninety thousan' men.
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