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The dark cloud burst in storm: "Don't you know," said Alspaugh, angry in every fiber, "that the reggerlations say that 'when an enlisted man sees an officer approach, he will rise and saloot, and remain standin' and gazin' in a respectful manner until the officer passes five paces beyond him? Say, don't you know that?"
And Briggs rose slowly and searched in a mysterious drawer which he invariably kept locked. "'Ere she is, as large as life, Mamzelle," he continued, exhibiting a "promenade" photograph of the actress in question. "There's a neck for you! There's form! Vi, my dear, I saloot you!" and he pressed a sounding kiss on the picture "you're one in a million!
But I 'ad thought 'im superior to it. Ah! poor 'uman natur, as 'Uxley says!" and Briggs sighed. "Lady Errington is a sweet creetur, Mamzelle a very sweet creetur! Has a rule I find the merest nod of my 'ed a sufficient saloot to a woman of the aristocracy but for 'er, Mamzelle, I never fail to show 'er up with a court bow!" And involuntarily Briggs bowed then and there in his most elegant manner.
Mister Junky is a noble lookin old man, & orter lead armies on to Battel instid of shoutin in a furrin tung. Adoo. In the langwidge of Lewis Napoleon when receivin kumpany at his pallis on the Bullyvards, "I saloot yu." I don't pertend to be a cricket & consekently the reader will not regard this 'ere peace as a Cricketcism.
"Here, you fellers," he said angrily, "why don't ye git up an' saloot? Don't ye know your business yit?" "What business, Jake?" asked Kent Edwards, absently, paying most attention to a toad which had hopped out form the cover of a budock leaf, in search of insects for his supper. Alspaugh's face grew blacker. "The business of paying proper respect to your officers."
On yonder woodshed," sed I, drawin myself up to my full hite and speakin in a show-actin voice, "will I fire a Nashunal saloot!" sayin whitch I tared myself from her grasp and rusht to the top of the shed whare I blazed away until Square Baxter's hired man and my son Artemus Juneyer cum and took me down by mane force.
A white man's no longer got any rights in this country that these military upstarts is bound to respect. But I'm obeyin' the order till I kin git an appeal from it." "You're a liar. You're not," said Shorty, savagely. "Why, what in the world have I got on that's military?" asked Billings, looking himself over. "You're wearin' a military saloot, which you have no business to.
"I've paralytics in my arm," he said, with intention to explain his failure to salute his superior. "Humph!" said the surgeon; "you have another hand." "An' it's not the rigulation to saloot with yer left," said the Irishman, with a grin, while the patients around us began to smile. "How did it happen?" said the surgeon.
He has his own ideas as to who he wants in the company, and what he says goes. It may be that the color o' your hair'll decide him, mebbe the look in your eyes, mebbe the shape o' your noses. 'Tention! Right dress! Front! Saloot!" Capt. McGillicuddy came down at the head of the company officers of the regiment, and took a comprehensive survey of the squad.
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