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The independent sons of Britain were not to be baffled of their sport in this manner. They cracked away as long as they pleased, by-Joved and blawsted the island for not having more game, and then came aboard. The steamer hove up anchor and sailed that night.
"You blawsted, bloody Britisher," chuckled Bart, giving Frank a poke in the ribs. "Where's my bally monocle, old top?" whispered Frank, while Billy and Tom grew red in the face from trying to control their merriment. The captain himself had all he could do to maintain his gravity. "Do you believe your captain when he tells you that?" he inquired.
While on his European tour Will was entertained by a great many potentates. At a certain dinner given in his honor by a wealthy English lord, Will met for the first time socially a number of blustering British officers, fresh from India. One of them addressed himself to the scout as follows: "I understand you are a colonel. You Americans are blawsted fond of military titles, don't cherneow.
Going to the door and looking wisely into the gray sky and noting the direction of the wind, the latter replied that he thought the shower would probably last about six months, an opinion that of course disgusted the fault-finding Briton with the "blawsted country," though in fact it is but little if at all wetter or cloudier than his own. No climate seems the best for everybody.
A Johnnie quite a strangah to me, don't-che-naow, was riding pawst my place lawst week and mentioned about this ah raisin' bee he called it I think, and in fact abaout the blawsted Indian, and the fire, don't-che-naow, and all the rest of it, and how the chaps were all chipping in as he said, logs and lumbah and so fowth.
Hearing of the obstacle on the highway, two of McDougall's officers came on towards Fort Garry, and finding the obstruction, one of them gave command, "Remove that blawsted fence," but the half-breeds refused to obey. The half-breeds seized the mails and all freight coming along the road coming into the country.
Gray was furious when she heard of it their making use of her Lord in such a way but Lord Harold just swallowed his big Adam's apple with a gulp or two, and said: "'Pon honor, it's a blawsted scheme, you know; but I'm jolly sure I'd make a bleddy ass of myself. I cawn't act, you know." The ninny! You know he thinks Gray really can.
That's yer churches fer yeh!" And still Tommy remained silent. "An' if yeh want to knew more about him, you ask Magee there, an' Morrison an' Old Cap Jim an' a 'eap of fellows about this 'ere preacher, an' 'ear 'em talk. Don't ask me. 'Ear 'em talk w'en they git time. They wuz a blawsted lot of drunken fools, workin' for the whiskey-sellers an' the tin-horn gamblers.
"An' I 'appen to know that agin the Pioneer's violent opposition, agin the business men, agin his own helder a-keepin' the drug shop, agin the hagent of the town site an' agin the whole blawsted, bloomin' population, that 'ere preacher put up a fight, by the jumpin' Jemima! that made 'em all 'unt their 'oles!" "Aw, Benny, it's wanderin' agin ye are!
Who can tell what dangers lie before us?" "We will never get out alive," groaned Sir Arthur. "Never in the world, Carrington. What a blawsted idiot I was to let the government send me to that beastly hole!" "And is it impossible to escape by land?" asked the colonel, unheeding this interruption. "You forget that we have destroyed our only communication with the outer world," ventured Forbes.
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