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Updated: September 1, 2025
"And what made you think I was at the hospital, Jigger?" "Becos you'd been to the 'osses, sir." "Did you tell the General's orderly that?" "No, your gryce no, sir," he added quickly, and a flush of self-reproach came to his face, for he prided himself on being a real disciplinarian, a disciple of the correct thing.
The sun in the cloudless sky beyond Becos, where it appears standing as if to rest from the fatigue of climbing the hills, is lifting Therapia bodily out of its sparkling waters. In the bay moreover there are many calls of mariner to mariner, and much creaking of windlasses, and clashing of oars cast loose in their leather slings.
"It iss becos the gentleman hass tekken Punch up to the house to kip away the ghosts," smiled Mrs. Carré. "I should say this one would have been of more use." "He will be quiet soon. Scamp, bad beast, be qui-et! A couche!"
'If a man's wife or gel or sister or friend wants to send 'im some smokes they cuts this coo-pon, same's I've said, an' sends it up to the paper, wi' sixpence an' the reg'mental number an' name of the man the gift's to go to. An' the paper buys the 'baccy, gettin' it cheap becos o' buyin' tons an' tons, an' sends a packet out wi the chap's number an' name and reg'ment wrote on it. So 'e gets it.
"Two pun ten," said Sam again; "an' I don't know what you're goin' to do with your half, but I'm goin' to give ten bob to Dick." "Why don't you give the man his money?" said Dick warmly. "Becos the syndikit 'ad all fell through," said the cook. "The syndikit was only a syndikit when we was both looking for 'im together. If the syndikit "
"It's all right for you, becos it's the last licker as you'll be allowed to taste, but it's rough on me and the cook." "Damn you an' the cook," said the skipper, and went on deck to see whether the men's tongues were hanging out.
I did say he had been cheatin', becos he had, becos he was movin' all his other pieces over the board how he liked. I says he mustn't do that, becos it isn't the game, but he says that as he's been told off to play, he'll play how he bloomin' well likes. I says it's cheatin', and he hits me on the nose, so I hits him back, and we has a bit of a dust up."
Will you please send me your ortograf? I like your books very much. I have named my white rabit Montagu after you. I punched Jones II in the eye to-day becos he didn't like your books. I have spent the only penny I have on the stampe for this letter which I might have spent on tuck. I want to be like Maltby in "The Soul of Anthony Carrington" when I grow up. Your sincere reader, P. A. Dunstable.
"A dog's doin', and no mistakin' thot," said Jim at length, after a minute inspection. "Ay," declared the Master with slow emphasis, "and a sheep-dog's too, and an old un's, or I'm no shepherd." The postman looked up. "Why thot?" he asked, puzzled. "Becos," the Master answered, "'im as did this killed for blood and for blood only.
"'It's a wonderful animal, ses the skipper, 'an' there's none of you now but has seen the sea-sarpint; but I forbid any man here to say a word about it when we get ashore. "'Why not, sir? ses the second mate. "'Becos you wouldn't be believed, said the skipper sternly. The comic papers 'ud make fun of it, and the respectable papers 'ud say it was seaweed or gulls.
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