h'italian

Updated: May 9, 2025

"Ah, my h'Italian friend!" said the master-at-arms, who overheard him, with a broad grin on his face, which was reflected on that of Mr Brown; "so you're going to leave us too, eh! Well, as some writing chap says somewhere or t'other in some book I've read, we could have better spared a better boy than you, Paddy.

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Young Tom Bowling: The Boys of the British Navy