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And he hasn't been tellin' it; he've written it, here in pen and ink. He've cut and run to take the King's shilling and be a sojer: and if I can't overtake him before he gets to Plymouth Citadel the deed will he done, and the Frenchies will knock him upon the head and I shall be without a roof to cover me. Get me my shawl and bonnet."
"In my watch there's Jones, Harwood and Simms, either English or Welsh. They're all right. Then there's a nigger named Sam; Schmitt, a Dutchman, with his partner, whose name I don't know, and two Frenchies, Ravel and Pierre. That makes eight, nine counting myself. Then in the starboard watch I'd pick out Jim Carter and Joe Cole, two Swedes, Carlson and Ole Hallin, and another nigger.
And they've got patience, they'll wait thar till the b'ars git fat. I reckon they 'low Clark's got the armies of Congress behind him. If they knowed," said Tom, with a chuckle, "if they knowed that we'd only got seventy of the boys and some hundred Frenchies in the army! I reckon the Colonel's too cute for 'em." The savages in Cahokia were as the leaves of the forest.
"Yes," replied Castellan, "she's a splendid ship, and those guns look as though they could talk French to the Frenchies and German to the Dutchmen and plain English to the lot in a way that wouldn't want much translating. And what's more, they have the right men behind them, and the best gun in the world isn't much good without that."
"The Frenchies might shoot me, to be sure," Nandy allowed. "That's one way of looking at it. But King George would take the risk o' that, and give me a shilling down for it." "O Nandy, Nandy here's a shillin' for 'ee, if that's what you want! But be a good boy, and don't talk so irreligious!"
When he learned we were going to Scotland, 'Well, then, he broke out, 'I'll see where Wallace lived! And presently after, he fell to moralising. 'It's a strange thing, sir, he began, 'that I seem somehow to have always the wrong sow by the ear. I'm English after all, and I glory in it. My eye! don't I, though! Let some of your Frenchies come over here to invade, and you'll see whether or not!
Why, I could do it in the dark if I could only get rid of these straps, now that the Frenchies are beaten." "Not beaten, Punch; only driven back, and I feel pretty sure in thinking it out that they have come to a halt here in what I dare say is a good, strong place where they can defend themselves and wait for reinforcements before attacking again." "Oh, they won't do that," said Punch roughly.
So there we were, on our hands and knees, crawling up towards the Frenchies as hard as we could go. My leg was deuced uncomfortable, y' know, but I put on a spurt, and managed to draw level with him. 'Hallo, Sling! says he, 'here's where you win, for I'm done! and over he goes again. 'So am I, for that matter, says I which was only the truth, Beverley.
All I can say is, though, that through this dodge they took the Frenchies unawares and gave them a dressing as British sailors have always done when we've been at loggerheads with them furrin chaps!" Mick Donovan scratched his head, in the same solemn way father used to do, as if trying to rub in this valuable piece of historical information.
It was so simple. I recorded what he said so as not to forget. "When it's dark" he said, in a low voice, with no introduction, "there's only the picquets. They have everything to themselves excepting that the Frenchies are just alongside. The Frenchies watch us close, but we watch them closer, and there's always a way.
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