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"Oh, it's not our cook he means," explained the sporting electrician; "Mr Smith refers to a certain sea-cook or his son, I'm not sure which who is chef des horse-marines." "Is there a chorus?" asked one.
I feed my horse on corn and beans. Of course it's quite beyond my means, Tho a captain in the army!" "I don't altogether like it," said Sam. "What are the horse-marines? I don't believe there are any." "Oh, that doesn't make any difference. It seems it's an old song that was all the go long before our time, and your name has revived it. It will advertise you splendidly.
Fly was delighted with one wee soldier, in a blue coat with brass buttons, who kept dancing and bowing with the greatest politeness. "Captain Jinks, of the horse-marines," said the toy-man, introducing him. "Buy him, miss; he'll make a nice little husband for you; only fifteen cents." Fly felt quite flattered.
"Tell them to anyone you can get to believe you tell the crossing-sweeper and the policemen, tell your grandmother, tell the horse-marines it will amuse them. Only, you shall tell them on the other side of my front door. Shall I call anyone to show you out?" Paradine saw his game was really played out, and swaggered insolently to the door: "Not on my account, I beg," he said.
I was dissatisfied with the security of my friend Josiah Cheeks, the Major-General of the Horse-Marines, of his Majesty's ship the Merry Dun of Dover.
It was resolved at any rate to try some sort of a hit at all these very gallant Frenchmen, moored under their own batteries, and making horse-marines of themselves, whenever Neptune, the father of the horse, permitted.
There used to be some twenty tables. Just how one man could play at more than one of them at one time a "foreign correspondent," but only a "foreign correspondent," might explain to the satisfaction of the horse-marines. I very much doubt whether any player ever won more than 100,000 francs at a single sitting. To do even that he must plunge like a ship in a hurricane.
Amidst this group of officers, I observed my coffee-room friend, the major-general of the horse-marines, who seemed excessively shy, and at that moment absorbed in geological studies, for he could not take his eyes from off the earth.
The victory was mainly owing to the gallantry of the celebrated French horse-marines, who executed several brilliant charges under the orders of the intrepid Joinville; and though the Irish Brigade, with their ordinary modesty, claimed the honors of the day, yet, as only three of that nation were present in the action, impartial history must award the palm to the intrepid sons of Gaul.
There used to be some twenty tables. Just how one man could play at more than one of them at one time a "foreign correspondent," but only a "foreign correspondent," might explain to the satisfaction of the horse-marines. I very much doubt whether any player ever won more than 100,000 francs at a single sitting. To do even that he must plunge like a ship in a hurricane.
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