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Updated: July 22, 2025
Bridoon's one of my lambs, as Nosebag calls 'ern. Come, Mr. a a pray, what's your name, sir? 'Butler, ma'am, said Waverley, resolved rather to make free with the name of a former fellow-officer than run the risk of detection by inventing one not to be found in the regiment. 'O, you got a troop lately, when that shabby fellow, Waverley, went over to the rebels?
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.
Wasn't I there with Long Aleck when you got away with the gold Hoban hid in our nosebag other side o' Geelong? 'You're on the wrong scent. My name is Done. I'm a new chum, landed only this morning off the Francis Cadman. 'Here, let's look you over again. The stranger struck a match, and, shielding it with his hands, examined Jim's face. 'Dunno, he said, 'but p'r'aps you are a bit young.
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.
When he had assuaged his thirst Paul backed him into the road and, slinging over his head a comforting nosebag, left him to his meal. The young man, sitting on an upturned wooden case, at the extreme edge of the elm tree's shade, a slender easel before him, a litter of paraphernalia on the ground by his side, painted assiduously.
It was only the fat, sleepy horse in the trolly shafts, who, at the same time that he gave his nosebag a toss, shook himself violently to get rid of the flies which preferred his juices to the sugar oozing from many a hogshead's seams.
Then he let himself down and proceeded to the back of the van, where stood a pail of water and a tin basin, his simple washing apparatus. Having sluiced bead and neck and dried them with something resembling a towel, he hooked up the pail, stowed the basin in a rack, unslung a nosebag, which he attached to the head of the old horse, and went indoors to prepare his own elementary breakfast.
After ten minutes, sullen an' sulky, hunger beats Jerry an' he comes bumpin' into camp like a bar'l down hill an' eases his mind by wallopin' both hind hoofs into them other blameless mules, peacefully munchin' their rations. Also, after Jerry's let me put the nosebag onto him he reeverses his p'sition an' swiftly lets fly at me. But I ain't in no trance an' Jerry misses.
I want the practical Englishman to settle his muzzle in a nosebag of ideas. When he has once got hold of them, he makes good stuff of them. On the Continent ideas have wings and pay visits. Here, they're stay-at-home. Then I want our fellows to have the habit of speaking from the chest. They shall return to England with the whoop of the mountains in them and ready to jump out.
The pillow universally used was a nosebag filled with the next day's feed, and very comfortable it was, especially now that there were no ravenous mules to break loose and poke an inquisitive muzzle under our ears. Then with our cap-comforters on, and perhaps the spare shirt wrapped round the head, we were snug for the night.
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