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'Are ye there, dearie? called a familiar female voice. 'Holy Moses! she whispered. 'It's Miss Tod, hame three days afore her time. 'Oh, criffens! gasped Macgregor. 'What'll I dae? 'Ye can either hide in the coal bunker, or bide whaur ye are like a sojer. She'll no devour ye. Christina then ran out to receive her employer, which she did without embarrassment.

Jope murmured: "but as you say, sir Would you oblige us again?" Again the Latin was repeated, and he swung round upon me. "Think of that, now! Be you a scholar, hey? read, write and cipher? How would you spell 'sojer' for instance?" The question knocked the wind out of me, and I felt my face whitening under the clergyman's eyes.

For the present he must expect to be passed over. His chance would come later, when he had filled out a little and got rid of his cough. The winter dragged on: the weather was appalling: the grousers gave tongue with no uncertain voice, each streaming field-day. But Wee Pe'er enjoyed it all. He did not care if it snowed ink. He was a "sojer."

'Yes, yes, said his companion, depressing his spirits to a kindred level. 'And yet, such is fate, that, instead of joining men's limbs together, you'll have to get your own joined poor young sojer! all through having such a warlike soul. 'Yes, murmured Festus, and paused.

He canna gang him lane, but he'll gang wi' onybody and haud up wi' him. 'What do you think him fit for, then? Now Robert had been building castles for Shargar out of the hopes which the doctor's friendliness had given him. Therefore he was ready with his answer. 'Gin ye cud ensure him no bein' made a general o', he wad mak a gran' sojer.

"They'd ha' had to drill something else beside your legs and wings, Smiler," said Joey, giving his companions a queer look. "Eh? What?" "That mug o' your'n, else you'd ha' been in the Black Hole half your time for laughin' at your officers." "Yah! Just as if I can help bein' a good-tempered lookin' chap. Dessay as I should make as good a sojer as most on 'em as you see over yonder at those towns.

"The children are just going on the circle," said the pretty young lady, "won't you take my other hand and go too." The Major drew back hastily. "She's come ter school," he declared indicating the Angel, "there ain't no school in it fer me. I'm a sojer, I am."

Long Hair rose at this, and said, "White chief send sojer to cabin, right way, bimeby, quick?" "Yes," replied the general, "and I should like to have you go with them as guide." "No," answered the Indian, sententiously; "Long Hair go 'lone; Long Hair always go 'lone;" and, starting at a quick pace, he was speedily out of sight.

There was a sayin' we had aboard the old Queen Charlotte 'A messmate afore a shipmate, we said, 'an' a shipmate afore a dog, an' a dog, though he be a yellow dog, afore a sojer. But what vexes me is the triumphant arches we wasted on such a chap." "My love," said the Doctor to his spouse, "I congratulate you on your fancy for professional soldiers. You are married to one, anyway." "Dearest!"

"And your Master," sed Philander, "where is he?" "Massa's in the cold, cold ground at least I hope so!" sed the gay contraband. "March on, March on! all hearts rejoice!" cried the Colonel, who was mounted on a Bob-tailed nag on which, in times of Peace, my soul, O Peace! he had betted his money. "Yaw," sed a German Bold Sojer Boy, "we don't-fights-mit-Segel as much as we did."