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Captain Bayliss is still too army to give any such orders. Helms’s always been a troublemaker; he wouldn’t need much more than a suggestion or two of the right sort. Helms, Stevens, Danny Birke, and that kid Mitchell. You’re right so far, Nye." Topham grinned. "Like as not, I’m imaginin’ things—a greenhorn huntin’ Apaches behind every bush.
"It's a queer tale, Mr. Quatermain," said Sir Henry. "I suppose you are not hoaxing us? It is, I know, sometimes thought allowable to take in a greenhorn."
"I hear you lost a patient from the hospital yesterday?" said Lieutenant Winslow, at the doctor's side. "From, did you say? That's right! He was to have been operated on to-day." The doctor shrugged his shoulders. "What!" "Two broken ribs. One grown fast to the lung." "Wh-ew!" "He just walked out. Said I had ordered him to have fresh air. There was a new hall-boy, a greenhorn."
Right now, down in the heart of a forest fire, when the Rangers are working like men possessed down some hot gulch, one will say to the other: "'Gee, Jack, if I was only back where I used to be, I could be having a plate of ice cream this minute. And the other will reply: 'I wish I might be back in Peanutville and hear the band play in the park. And both men will laugh and go at the work all the harder for realizing what a miserable failure the weak greenhorn had been."
This we were convinced was the result of our night journey, and father was confident that we could recover it; but, when after several hours spent in a fruitless endeavor to find where it crossed the stream, I urged that we should take our own trail back to the point at which it diverged from that of the train, he positively refused to do so; declaring that he wasn't a greenhorn to get scared at so small a matter, and that he should push on in a southwesterly direction, and take his chance of intersecting the trail, he asserting that we must have strayed to northward of it.
He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have seen all those lights. He's recaptured, there! He'll get off with twenty years. I ain't afraid, I ain't a coward, but there ain't anything more to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance.
And that twenty sets of these pictures are all present at once, scrambled together, just waiting for that little box to take them and sort them out? What do you take us for anyway a bunch of gullible greenhorn fools?" "And besides," continued an engineer, "how do these pictures get into the air in the first place? Where do they come from?"
Glaring at Julie, who was still laughing, the patriot added: "You there, greenhorn, have a care I don't land you a kick in the backside to learn you to respect good patriots." But other voices were joining in: "Hanriot's a drunken sot and a fool!" "Hanriot's a good Jacobin! Vive Hanriot!" Sides were taken, and the fray began.
He came down to Shorncliffe and we got him into our platoon and into our tent, and then the fun started. The boys thought him a greenhorn, and they were all showing him how to do things. He would let them help to put his puttees on, show him the hundred and one things that a soldier needs to know; we would almost burst trying to keep from laughing.
But I know better now. I have tried you and proved you, and do not want you as housemaid any longer. Nor shall I need your services, for a new girl comes to-morrow Sarah's cousin. She is in New York, and will be here on the morning train. A regular greenhorn I imagine; but if she is honest and willing, I can soon train her in my ways.
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