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Updated: June 26, 2025
'The Staff Orf'cer wint blue, an' Toomey makes him pink by changin' to the voice av a minowderin' woman an' sayin': "Come an' kiss me, Major dear, for me husband's at the wars an' I'm all alone at the Depot." 'The Staff Orf'cer wint away, an' I cud see Crook's shoulthers shakin'. 'His Corp'ril checks Toomey. "Lave me alone," sez Toomey, widout a wink.
Peg Barney that cleared out the Blue Lights' jubilee meeting wid the cook-room mop last year? "Thin I knew ut was a draf' of the ould rig'mint, an' I was conshumed wid sorrow for the bhoy that was in charge. We was harrd scrapin's at any time. Did I iver tell you how Horker Kelley went into clink nakid as Phoebus Apollonius, wid the shirts av the Corp'ril an' file undher his arrum?
He's comin' again. "She pointed to the veranda, an' by the Hoight av Impart'nince, the Corp'ril man was comin' out av Bragin's quarters. "'He's done that these five evenin's past, sez Annie Bragin. 'Oh, fwhat will I do! "'He'll not do ut again, sez I, for I was fightin' mad. "Kape way from a man that has been a thrifle crossed in love till the fever's died down. He rages like a brute beast.
In thim times, a man lived an' died wid his regiment; an' by natur', he married whin he was a man. Whin I was Corp'ril Mother av Hivin, how the rigimint has died an' been borrun since that day! my Color-Sar'jint was Ould McKenna an' a married man tu. An' his woife his first woife, for he married three times did McKenna was Bridget McKenna, from Portarlington, like mesilf.
I'd never seen a woman faint before, an' I stud like a shtuck calf, askin' her whether she was dead, an' prayin' her for the love av me, an' the love av her husband, an' the love av the Virgin, to opin her blessed eyes again, an' callin' mesilf all the names undher the canopy av Hivin for plaguin' her wid my miserable a-moors whin I ought to ha' stud betune her an' this Corp'ril man that had lost the number av his mess.
"Used to say 'I'm a man of few words'?" Slavin nodded affirmatively. "That's him, Sarjint in charrge av th' town station he was years back. This is whin I was Corp'ril at headquarthers. A foine big roosther av a man was Nobby, wid a mighty pleasant way wid um 'specially wid th' ladies. Wan night blarney me sowl! Will I iver forghet ut?
Wanst, bein' a fool, I wint into the married lines more for the sake av spakin' to our ould color-sergint Shadd than for any thruck wid womenfolk. I was a corp'ril then rejuced aftherward, but a corp'ril then. I've got a photograft av mesilf to prove ut. 'You'll take a cup av tay wid us? sez Shadd. 'I will that, I sez, 'tho' tay is not my divarsion.
"Whin I was Corp'ril I wud not ha' changed wid the Colonel no, nor yet the Commandher-in-Chief. I wud be a Sargint. There was nothin' I wud not be! Mother av Hivin, look at me! Fwhat am I now?
'Whin I was Corp'ril I wud not ha' changed wid the Colonel no, nor yet the Commandher-in-Chief. I wud be a Sargint. There was nothin' I wud not be! Mother av Hivin, look at me! Fwhat am I now?
Did I iver, whin I was Corp'ril, use the rise av my rank wan step an' that taken away, more's the sorrow an' the fault av me! to prosecute a nefarious inthrigue, as O'Hara did? Did I, whin I was Corp'ril, lay my spite upon a man an' make his life a dog's life from day to day?
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