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'Surely, Miss Barclay, you wouldn't set the poor lad in the forefront of danger again! said lady Macintosh. 'I wud that, my lady! I canna but think the airmy, savin for this misadventur gien there be ony sic thing as misadventur hed a fair chance o' makin a man o' Francie; and whiles I canna help doobtin gien onything less 'ill ever restore him til himsel but restorin him til 's former position.
'Wot's that you say, Jock? said a Cockney voice to his left. 'I was obsairvin', said the other, 'that Number Twenty-sax is occupied this mornin'. 'Ow yus, so it is. I was 'oping as 'ow me pal the Duke of Mudturtle would buy the plice next to mine. But he don't look a bad cove, wot you can see under 'is farncy 'ead-dress. 'I dinna think he can be o' the airmy.
She has two sons, and both in the airmy, one in the Cameronians and one a prisoner in Germany. She was telling me that she could not keep goin' any more, lacking the help of the boys, though she had worked her fingers to the bone.
At aboot four-thirrty P.M., Lance-Corporal Ness reported this man tae me for refusing for tae obey an order. I confined him." The Captain turns to the prisoner. "What have you to say, Private Dunshie?" Private Dunshie, it appears, has a good deal to say. "I jined the Airmy for tae fight they Germans, and no for tae be learned tae scrub floors " "Sirr!" suggests the Sergeant-Major in his ear.
And she's tellt me my duty and my sins in a mainner worthy o' Debohrah the prophetess; and I aye set mysel' to owercome them as gin they had been the airmy o' Sisera, wham Jael, the wife o' Heber, the Kenite, killed efter a weel-deserved but some cooardly faushion." Annie did not return to the harvest-field that day. She did not want to go near Alec again.
It it hadnae been for the want o' a half inch or thereby in the height o' my heels " here he stood upon his toes "I wad hae been in the airmy mysel'. It's the only employ for a man o' spunk, and there's spunk in Mungo Boyd, mind I'm tellin' ye!" "It is the most obvious thing in the world, good Mungo," said Montaiglon, smiling. "You eviscerate fish with the gusto of a gladiator."
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