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"I expect you will find the soldiers billeted at the Castle useful as beaters," I enquired with a purpose. The man assented grudgingly. Gamekeepers are first-class grumblers. But the soldiers were not many. For his part he could do without them altogether. They were such terrible poachers to have about the place, he declared.
In this matter the late Ministry,* to be sure, was better qualified; but even then, grumblers who had not got their canary cordons, would have hinted at professional jealousies entering the Cabinet; and, the ribbons being awarded, Jack would have scowled at his because Dick had a broader one; Ned been indignant because Bob's was as large: Tom would have thrust his into the drawer, and scorned to wear it at all.
"The next law was that all the raspberry jam in the city should be set aside for the use of the queen and her court, and for those who were invited to the royal tea parties. There was a little grumbling about this, but finally the grumblers gave in. All this time troops of children came pouring in from the neighboring villages with pinafores on the end of broomsticks as flags of rebellion.
While the other two hesitated he was upon them, had cracked their heads together, and hammered them down the steps to the waist. From his belt he whipped two pistols and leveled them at the grumblers. "Avast, you lubbers!" he bellowed. "By the powers, I'll learn you to play horse with Bully Evans! Pipe up your complaint or foot it, you flabby seacocks what call yourselves gentlemen of fortune!
The two things did not happen in the same town. Both Smollett and Thicknesse were great grumblers.
Now we stood on one tack, now on the other, the wind each time heading us. At last the grumblers began to declare that we should never make our port. "The old craft has got a run of ill-luck, there's something worse a-going to happen," said Sam Norris, one of my chief persecutors, as during his watch below he sat with his arms folded on his chest in the fore-peak.
Every war must be aggressive, or, to use the technical term, offensive, in military character; for unless you injure the enemy, if you confine yourself, as some of the grumblers of that day would have it, to simple defence against his efforts, obviously he has no inducement to yield your contention.
True, some one has been wicked enough to observe that all chess-stories are divisible into two classes, in one a man plays for his own soul with the Devil, in the other the hero plays and wins a wife, and to beg for a chess-story minus wives and devils; but such grumblers are worthless baggage, and ought to be checked. The Chess Library has now become an important collection.
Thus business is thrown into confusion, and everybody concerned is put out of temper. It will generally be found that the men who are thus habitually behind time are as habitually behind success; and the world generally casts them aside to swell the ranks of the grumblers and the railers against fortune.
The skipper carried the dispatch-box, and in his pockets he had John Darling's neat little pistols, each good for two shots the latest thing in pistols at that time. They went straight to Cornelius Lynch's cabin, where the leading grumblers were assembled.
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