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With certain winds we were nearly choked with a black, oily smoke that hurt our eyes and brought on much the same symptoms as accompany snow-blindness. "We take it in turns to be cook and messman, working in pairs: Abbott and I, Levick and Browning, Priestley and Dickason, and thus each has one day on in three.
Sabre felt a sudden catch at his emotions. "Is the regiment going?" They were at the door of the anteroom. Cottar swung it open. The room was full of men and tobacco smoke and noise. A very tall youth, one Sikes, was standing on the table, a glass in his hand. "Hullo, Sabre! Messman, one of those very stiff whiskies for Mr. Sabre go on, Sabre, you must. Because " He had not Cottar's reticence.
The beaker was so greasy and filthy that I could not help turning round to the messman and saying, 'Fellow, get me a glass! At which all the wretches round about me burst into a roar of laughter, the very loudest among them being, of course, Mr. Toole.
Three cheers for Papa Otway in very discreet whispers. Messman, one of those very stiff whiskies for Captain Otway." Otway laughed pleasantly. "No, chuck it, I'm not drinking. Hood, I want you; and you, Carmichael, and you, Bullen." He saw Sabre and came to him. "Hullo, Sabre. You've heard now. We've managed to keep it pretty close, but it's all over the place now. Yes, we entrain at daybreak."
Beside the silent, gliding, ghost-like Mahometan women and the Hottentot Venus, you have Rebecca in gaudy kerchief and Doña Dolores in silken skirt and lace mantilla from neighbouring Spain. In the mingling crowd all is novelty, all is noise, all is queer and shifting and diversified. The hotel where we put up was owned by Bruzeaud, formerly a messman of a British regiment.
"We haven't got a chummy-ship," replied the A.P. "We don't want a chummy-ship. Nobody loves us. We hate each other with malignant hatred by reason of hobnailed livers." "And if we had," interposed another Lieutenant gloomily, "they'd far rather stay on board their own rotten ship. They're probably getting used to their messman by now. The sudden change of diet might be fatal."
It was the customary warning that the officers' boat would be alongside in five minutes. The Assistant Clerk ran distractedly for the ladder. "There's one 'G'! Have I got time to borrow five bob from the messman before the boat shoves off?" "You might borrow five bob for me while you're about it," shouted a belated Engineroom Watchkeeper, struggling into his clothes.
"About them fifty thousand francs, sorr," said the messman, cunningly, "or five thousand, was it?" That both Riley and Brock, as well as the Captain, professed their profound ignorance of the tale only served, as they well knew, to strengthen the Tearaways Rifles' belief in it, and after the man had gone they imparted their plan with huge delight and joyful anticipation to the Captain.
Phillips, bring me the menu, and let's see the messman has succeeded in being funny without being vulgar." Corporal Phillips brought the menu with the air of one who connives at a felony. "Messman says, sir, it ain't all 'e'd like it to be, what with guests comin' and that. But I says to 'im, 'war is war, I says, 'an' we can't expect eggs-on-meat entrées, same's if it was peace time."
"'Twas fifty thousand I heard, sorr," said the man eagerly; "but ye have heard, then, sorr?" "What's this about a General?" demanded the Captain. "Yes!" said Riley quickly. "What is it? We have heard nothing of the General." "Ah!" said the messman, eyeing him thoughtfully, "I thought maybe ye had heard." "We have heard nothing," said Riley. "What is it you are talking about?"
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