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But I tell you what I did think: that the Frenchies had got hold of you and made you prisoner. Then I lay here feeling that I could not move myself, and trying to work it out as to what you'd do whether you would try and make them come and fetch me to be a prisoner too, or whether you would think it wouldn't be safe, and you would be afraid to speak for fear they should come and bayonet me.
One after another called on him to tell his story; some tried to hurry him to La Pyramide, but others placed a cider-keg near, and almost lifted him on to it. "Go on, go on, tell us the story," they cried. "To the devil with the Frenchies!" "Here here's a dish of Adam's ale," cried an old woman, handing him a bowl of water. They cheered him lustily. The pallor of his face changed to a warmth.
"I bring many good Catholics into this world, I hope, and that's a way I help the Church." Emil looked down and patted him on the shoulder. "Now you're windy, 'Medee. You Frenchies like to brag." But Amedee had the zeal of the newly married, and he was not to be lightly shaken off. "Honest and true, Emil, don't you want ANY girl?
But I say, you Frenchies don't know how to throw a fly! `I used to, I replied, `at home, in France. `Lor', did you? he said. `Hear that, Billy? I never knew as a Frenchman knew how to fish. But that's all right, youngster only my ignorance. A fisherman's a fisherman the wide world round." "Well?" said Rodd, for his companion had stopped. "Well?" said Morny. "Go on." "What about?"
"Frenchies, sure," said Terence; "there'll be plenty av thim for a season. Faith, I do hear they're tinder as lambs." "You'll no set tooth in the Frenchies," the pessimistic McAndrew put in, "wi' five thousand redskins aboot, and they lying in wait. The Colonel's no vera mindful of that, I'm thinking." "Will ye hush, ye ill-omened hound!" cried Cowan, angrily. "Pitch him in the crick, Mac!"
I've had my bellyful o' Frenchies, Mr. Carvell save it be to fight 'em. An' I tell 'ee 'twould give me the greatest joy in life t' leave loose 'Scolding Sairy' at that there Landais. Th' gal ain't had a match on her this here cruise, an' t' my mind she couldn't be christened better, sir." I left him patting the gun with a tender affection.
I'm cooking 'em to make 'em taste like chicken, and it's time they were all back to mess. Which way did my old man go?" "Climbed up yonder. Said he knowed there'd be a house up somewheres there." "And why didn't you go with him, sir?" said Mrs Corporal Beane. "Might have found a melon or some oranges." "Not me," grumbled the boy. "Frenchies don't leave nothing: hungry beggars. Murd'rin' wermin.
"These Frenchies will let a man get married without any proof of his being born; but a woman, forsooth, must first prove she is born and that she has been christened before she is allowed to enter into the holy state of matrimony."
An our men hold together, we're two to one agen the Frenchies " "Ha," says M. Radisson. "Give you good-morning, gentlemen, and I hope you find yourselves in health." The two heads flew apart like the halves of a burst cannon-shell. Thereafter, Radisson kept Ben and Governor Brigdar apart. Of Godefroy and Jack Battle we could learn naught.
If only he had Tom there the trusty seaman who had fought at his right hand in a cutting out affair or two, and had always preached to him the necessity to take care of himself. "For it's no great trick," he used to say, "to get yourself killed in a hot fight. Any fool can do that. The proper pastime is to fight the Frenchies and then live to fight another day."
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