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"Well, sit down here, then, and look at that picture. Who is it?" "Why, hit's me me dressed up as cap'n," ejaculated Nichol, delightedly. "Yes, that was the way you looked and dressed before you were wounded." "How yer talk! This beats anythin' I ever yeared from the Johnnies." "Now, Captain Nichol, you see we are not deceiving you. We called you captain.
Crane's stride faltered. He whistled low. "In the name of all things wonderful! how did that get on board?" Lanyard mentioned the girl's name. "She has the stateroom next to mine came off that tender, night before last." "And me sore on that darn' li'l boat because it brought aboard all the nosey Johnnies! Ain't it the truth, you never know your luck?"
This order was occasionally intrusted to me. I was to gallop over the interval between the two columns, then draw up by the roadside and sit motionless on my horse till the general with his staff came up. The slightest irregularity of action would bring a shot from our own men, while the prospect of an interview with the Johnnies while thus isolated was always good.
At first, I took it to be part of a semi-submerged log, but as I drew nearer I was quite surprised to find that it was an early morning swimmer like myself. Nearer still, and I discovered that the swimmer was a woman whose hair was bound securely by a multi-coloured, heavy, silk muffler, such as certain types of London Johnnies affected for a time.
The mighty chorus sank away and the hills gave it back in echoes until the last one died. "It's sung mostly in the South," said Dick to Warner and Pennington. "True," said Warner, "but before the war songs were not confined to one section. They were the common property of both. We've as much right to sing Juanita as the Johnnies have."
Jarge wore a brown velveteen coat on high-days and holidays by virtue of his sporting reputation, and looked exceedingly smart with special corduroy breeches and gaiters and a wide-awake felt hat. He was much annoyed in Birmingham, whither I had sent all the men to an agricultural show, at hearing a man say to a companion, "There's another of them Country Johnnies."
Then came the shouting 'boys in blue, and in a few minutes Pat Birmingham came up and said: 'Well, Charley, I'm glad to find you alive. I didn't expect it. We're back again in the old camp, and the Johnnies are whipped all to pieces." The victory was as complete and satisfying as it was spectacular; the enemy was at last so thoroughly beaten that a dangerous attitude could not be taken again.
These "Johnnies" who hang about stage doors and send foolish and impertinent notes to the girlhood of the stage are not in love they are actuated by vanity, pure and simple.
"I believe you are right," he said, at last, "though you are rather severe. But let me tell you that the word 'chivalry' is misleading altogether. It is applied to those middle-aged Johnnies no, I mean those Johnnies of the Middle Ages who were supposed to go about rescuing damsels in distress, isn't it?
Aunt Julia didn't speak till we were in our seats. Then she gave a sort of sigh. 'It's twenty-five years since I was in a music-hall! She didn't say any more, but sat there with her eyes glued on the stage. After about half an hour the johnnies who work the card-index system at the side of the stage put up the name of Ray Denison, and there was a good deal of applause.
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