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"and signs his own name and rating, Percy Algernon Willoughby call him that Chief Yeoman, U.S. Navy, and glues that on behind the other sixty-seven endorsements and gloats over it, and for a few minutes feels like a bureau chief himself. Then for another minute or two he thought of mailing it to them. And he could see them reading that in Washington!
I generally found the place, and Jem put his arm over my shoulder and read with me. He was a yeoman born. I can just remember when I was not three years old and he was barely four the fright our mother got from his fearless familiarity with the beasts about the homestead.
Then resuming his task, he went on, "I, Gurth, the son of Beowulph, swineherd unto the said Cedric, with the assistance of our allies and confederates, who make common cause with us in this our feud, namely, the good knight, called for the present 'Le Noir Faineant', and the stout yeoman, Robert Locksley, called Cleave-the-Wand.
"`B L K, sir," replied the yeoman of signals and Larkyns in one breath; and the former, running his fingers over the pages of the signal book, which Commander Nesbitt had returned to his custody, soon found that the interpretation of the flags thus clustered was, "We have passed a wreck, but were unable to stand by to see if any survivors were aboard her."
Sometimes, for one reason or another, or perhaps without reason at all, it just happens. One night, a pleasant-enough night topside, but an even pleasanter night below, at least in our part of the ship below. A few of us were gathered in the flag office, where Dalton, the flag yeoman, sometimes allowed us to call when his admiral was ashore.
It would be impossible to name all who have done yeoman service during the past years but the three women who have meant more than all others to the suffrage cause are Mrs.
"Let them come of all hospitality," returned the Alderman, heartily; "I warrant me, they are honest farmers from the interior, a-hungered with the toil of the night. Go tell the cook to feed them with the best, and bid them welcome. And harkee, boy; if there be among them any comfortable yeoman, bid the man enter and sit at our table.
Come, now! Anne was embarrassed, and her smile was uncomfortable. 'I shall not tell you, she said at last. 'There it is again! said the yeoman, throwing himself into a despair. 'I shall soon begin to believe that my name is not worth sixpence about here! 'I tell you 'twas nothing against you, repeated Anne. 'That means it might have been for me, said Festus, in a mollified tone.
The sound of the trumpets soon recalled those spectators who had already begun to leave the field; and proclamation was made that Prince John, suddenly called by high and peremptory public duties, held himself obliged to discontinue the entertainments of to-morrow's festival: Nevertheless, that, unwilling so many good yeoman should depart without a trial of skill, he was pleased to appoint them, before leaving the ground, presently to execute the competition of archery intended for the morrow.
Frank Talbot answered for him, that he was a yeoman pricker, and the Earl permitted the paper to be carried to Mary, watching her carefully as she read it, when Antony had presented it on one knee. "Poor woman!" she said, "it is a piteous case. Master Beatoun, hast thou my purse?
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