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Updated: April 30, 2025
Jack Selby and the two regimental fizzers, who had secured immortality for the young couple, if the deep and constant drinking of healths could have done it, had provided themselves with packages of rice, old slippers, and other time- honoured missiles.
Let's get a cab! 'Wo, laddie, wo then, boy! Keep him in hand, Hale! Get to his head. Frank flung himself down into an armchair, and muttered about absurd conventions. 'It can't be helped, my boy. It is correct. 'Buck up, Crosse, buck up! We'll make the thing go with a buzz when we do begin. Two of our Johnnies are coming, regular fizzers, and full of blood both of them.
Headaches and thirst are curiously rife, and the consumption of "fizzers" a temperance beverage of an effervescent character vended by an individual with the profoundest trust in human nature on the subject of deferred payments is extensive enough to convert the regiment into a series of walking reservoirs of carbonic acid gas.
Already it had ridden a couple of hundred miles, with its baby hands playing with the reins, and before it reached home again another five hundred would be added to the two hundred. Seven hundred miles on horse back in a few weeks, at one year old, compares favourably with one of the Fizzer's trips. But it is thus the bush develops her Fizzers.
They had to keep away from the engine with their "fizzers," as the captain would call them, because he said he wouldn't trust even guaranteed fireworks to be harmless around a gasoline engine, but they had plenty of excitement without blowing up the good ship Sarah.
There is a Spanish lyrical and theatrical troop in the town; but it is Holy Week, and lyricals and theatricals are under taboo. Occasionally charity concerts are given by amateurs, and plays are even performed in Lent Champagne, of the Fizzers, has won a reputation by his success on the boards when he dons the habiliments of lovely woman beyond a certain age.
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