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"Now, Tom," said I, when he had reported all ready, "this shot must go home, mind; there must be no missing this time! So take it coolly; let her approach us to within a hundred fathoms before you think of firing I will give you the word and then let her have it as soon as you are certain of your aim." "Ay, ay, sir," answered Tom. "I'll have her this time or you may call me a sojer.
"Gin'ral Shafter is a big, coorse, two-fisted man fr'm Mitchigan, an', whin he see Gin'ral Garshy an' his twinty-five gallant followers, 'Fr-ront, says he. 'This way, he says, 'step lively, he says, 'an' move some iv these things, he says. 'Sir, says Gin'ral Garshy, 'd'ye take me f'r a dhray? he says. 'I'm a sojer, he says, 'not a baggage car, he says.
"I always s'posed," he continued, "that bein' a sojer meant fitin' somebody; and here we are roaming over the country like a lot of tramps. I can't see no good in it, nohow." "Don't be in a hurry. Si," replied Shorty; "I reckon we'll ketch it soon 'nuff. From what I've hearn the old soldiers tell a battle ain't such a funny thing as a feller thinks who don't know anything about it, like you'n me.
Oh, 'tis then that ladies fair In despair Tear their hair, But 'the divil-a-one I care, Says the bowld sojer boy. For the world is all before us, Where the landladies adore us, And ne'er refuse to score us, But chalk us up with joy; We taste her tap, We tear her cap' 'Oh, that's the chap For me! Says she; 'Oh, isn't he a darling, the bowld sojer boy.
"I seed our mis'ess go into a sort of a park place, where there's seats, and shrubs and flowers, arm-in-crook with a sojer," continued Cainy, firmly, and with a dim sense that his words were very effective as regarded Gabriel's emotions. "And I think the sojer was Sergeant Troy. And they sat there together for more than half-an-hour, talking moving things, and she once was crying a'most to death.
It had often to be both meat and drink when I was campaigning there. I wish I could quit it; but, young man," addressing himself to Neville, "I'd advise you never to learn. It's bad enough for an old sojer like me; but a smoking preacher I don't admire."
He had a sojer dere, a Linkum sojer, bad wounded, what he'd found in de woods, he was a runaway hisself, ye see, like me, an' he'd tuck him to dis ole cabin an'd been nussin him on for good while. When I seed dat I felt drefful bad, for I knowed dey was a huntin for me yet, an' I tought if de dogs got on de trail dey'd get to dis cabin, sure: an' den dey'd both be tuck.
At the same time she slipped a finger over her ring. "Why don't you look at me?" asked Halliwell, selfishly. "I daurna." "Am I so fearsome?" "You're a sojer, and you would shoot me like a craw." Halliwell laughed, and taking her wrists in his hands, uncovered her face. "Oh, by Jove!" he said again, but this time to himself.
''Tis hard upon a man, and he a wold sojer, to serve en so, Richard. Not that the sergeant was ever in a battle bigger than would go into a half- acre paddock, that's true. Still, his soul ought to hae as good a chance as another man's, all the same, hey? Richard replied that he was quite of the same opinion.
'A thuro sojer, says McKinley. 'Suppose th' sociable lasted all night? he says. 'I'd sound th' rethreat at daybreak, an' have me brave boys change back, he says, 'to suitable appar'l, he says. 'Masterly, says McKinley. 'I will sind ye'er name in as a brigadier-gin'ral, he says. 'Thank Gawd, th' r-rich, he says, 'is brave an' pathriotic, he says.
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