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She had just returned from the north, and informed Edward how nearly her regiment had cut the petticoat people into ribands at Falkirk, 'only somehow there was one of those nasty, awkward marshes, that they are never without in Scotland, I think, and so our poor dear little regiment suffered something, as my Nosebag says, in that unsatisfactory affair.
Nosebag addressed him with something which, if not an oath, sounded very like one, and commanded him to attend to his duty.
You, sir, have served in the dragoons? Waverley was taken so much at unawares that he acquiesced. 'O, I knew it at once; I saw you were military from your air, and I was sure you could be none of the foot-wobblers, as my Nosebag calls them. What regiment, pray? Here was a delightful question.
Now entered Spontoon with an anxious countenance. By his regimental acquaintances he had traced out Madam Nosebag, and found her full of ire, fuss, and fidget at discovery of an impostor who had travelled from the north with her under the assumed name of Captain Butler of Gardiner's dragoons.
You can say 'I was there. 'I was in it. 'I saw. 'I know. When this war is over you'll have everything out of it that's worth getting-all the experiences, all the inside knowledge, all the 'nosebag' news; you'll have wounds, honors, medals, money, reputation. And you're throwing all that away!" Mr. Hamlin interrupted savagely. "To hell with their medals," he said.
Waverley, however, justly concluded that this good lady had the whole army-list by heart; and, to avoid detection by adhering to truth, answered, 'Gardiner's dragoons, ma'am; but I have retired some time. 'O aye, those as won the race at the battle of Preston, as my Nosebag says. Pray, sir, were you there? 'I was so unfortunate, madam, he replied, 'as to witness that engagement.
I tell you, smart folks never have the time to be sympathetic; they always have too much thundering work on hand. The other day a horse was trying to get a very small quantity of oats from the depths of a very small nosebag. In vain the poor fellow tossed his head and did his best to gain his dinner.
David Fermaner was in one of the boats, which carried a supply of provisions for the two crews; in the other boat there was only what was styled a nosebag, or snack a mouthful for each man.
The horse was fastened to a tree with soft ground round it, the nosebag put on, and a horse cloth thrown over its back; then Mark and his two companions went out into the lane, and in a couple of minutes entered the next gate, treading lightly, and going round to the back of the house. A light burned in the kitchen, and an old woman could be seen knitting. They lifted the latch and walked in.
"Nuthin'," said Chook, seizing the leg of a table; "but wait till I put the nosebag on the moke." "Whose cart is it?" inquired Pinkey. "Jack Ryan's," answered Chook; "'e's bin shickered since last We'n'sday, an' I'm takin' it round fer 'is missis an' the kids." Mrs Partridge received Chook very graciously when she learned that he was a friend of Pinkey's and had offered to help in passing.
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