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Updated: September 10, 2025
Early dawn saw us in motion, with lovely weather, a fairish road, and men in high health and spirits. Later in the day a mounted officer was dispatched to report our approach and select a camp, which proved to be beyond Jackson's forces, then lying in the fields on both sides of the pike.
"Who wants it," she demanded, "to be Their Wedding Journey?" Life had not used them ill in this time, and the fairish treatment they had received was not wholly unmerited. The twelve years past had made them older, as the years must in passing. Basil was now forty-two, and his moustache was well sprinkled with gray.
They were hopelessly German about it, and did it so many times and very thoroughly. There were twelve thousand men in the camp and eight hundred in the laager. The majority were Russian and French with a fairish sprinkling of Belgians. There were perhaps six hundred British in the entire camp.
"Good God!" said Lestrange. "Was there no one there nothing but this box?" "Not a sight or sound, so the men said; just the shanty, abandoned seemingly. I had no time to land and hunt for castaways, I was after whales." "How big is the island?" "Oh, a fairish middle-sized island no natives. I've heard tell it's tabu; why, the Lord only knows some crank of the Kanakas I s'pose.
The regiment, of course, is distributed among the ships, and the Fleet dry nurse 'em. It rather breaks up shore discipline, but it gives the inland men a bit of experience, and, of course, it gives us a fairish supply of men behind the gun, in event of any strain on the Fleet. Some coast corps make a specialty of it, and compete for embarking and disembarking records.
With three or four white men on the engine, a Black Watch or two and a few other natives on the trucks, it snorted along through the woodland. As the night deepened and the moon rose, we came close to the last coach-stable, and were soon encamped. The old Basuto near by gave me a drink of fairish water, but water was far away, I was told.
I make a fairish amount of pin money on my poultry and some of my preserves that I send to Boston, and on some recipes of mine that I send to a woman's magazine now and then; but generally my savings don't amount to much over $10 a month. In the last five years I had put by something more than $600. I had been saving up for a Ford.
Culpepper's animation dropped like the light of a torch that is dowsed. 'Put up thy pot skewer, he said; 'my Kat is tall and fairish and unwed. Ha' ye not seen her with the Lady Mary of England's women? The young Poins, zealous to be rid of the matter, answered fervently: 'Never. She is not talked of in the Court. 'That is the best hearing, Thomas Culpepper said.
It stamps guide-book on them, English tourist, horrors. We'll moralize over the crowds at the tables down there. On the whole, it's a fairish game: you know the odds against you, as you don't on the Turf or the Bourse. Have your fling; but don't get bitten. There's a virus. I'm not open to it. Others are.
'Tobacco before breakfast! he said disgustedly tossing his cigar to the road. 'Your pipe holds on. Bad thing, I can tell you, that smoking on an empty stomach. No trainer'd allow it, not for a whole fee or double. Kills your wind. Let me ask you, my good sir, are you going to turn? We've sat a fairish stretch. I begin to want my bath and a shave, linen and coffee. Thirsty' as a dog.
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