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Updated: May 22, 2025
Only it meant more to a fellow lying thinking about it among the ropes of a transport's deck, with the Spaniards in prospect. Cap's cigarette shone like a glowworm in the shadow of the stack. "Our good-bye supper will be sloppy weather, all right;" said he. "Six going out." "No," answered Tom, "it won't be a drunk to-night, Cap. You haven't been in long enough.
For as the rather disorderly procession drifted away through the arch the soloists moved easily toward her. One of them was disgracefully fat, he puffed as he mopped his brow, but the other walked lightly, tossing his cap boyishly as he walked. Close to the wall, he laughed, a youthful, buoyant laugh, "Jove!" he ejaculated, "Now I have done it my cap's on top of the wall "
She found an old flannel petticoat hanging up to dry, and this she carried off, and tore up into slips, which she wrung out in warm water, and laid them tenderly on Cap's swollen leg. It was not long before the poor dog felt the benefit of the application, and he looked grateful, wagging his little stump of a tail in thanks.
We called him "Red Cap," from his wearing a jaunty, gold-laced, crimson cap. Ordinarily, the smaller a drummer boy is the harder he is, but no amount of attrition with rough men could coarse the ingrained refinement of Red Cap's manners.
"But you have been exposed to the storm. Please come into my room and change your clothes," continued the young hostess, as she took Cap's hand and led her into an adjoining room. The storm was still raging, but these apartments being in the central portion of the strong old house, were but little exposed to the sight or sound of its fury.
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