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Updated: May 26, 2025
"I'm perfectly certain all this cocksure Johnny-head-in-air business, 'sail to-day and see you again at tea tomorrow, so it's not worth while saying good-by' you know the style? is fatuous and idiotic. It is not bluff, because the English officer-man doesn't bluff. He hasn't the brains, to begin with, and then he is a very sound sort of an animal.
Even in Sierra Leone, where the negro claims to be civilised, a dusky belle, after dropping her napkin at a Government House dinner, has been heard to say to her neighbour, 'Please, Mr. Officer-man, pick up my towel. The other day a dark dame who missed her parasol thus addressed H.E.: 'Grovernah! me come ere wid my umbrellah.
Indeed, without your father you would be nothing at all. Myself. That’s true; but I do not think he could be spared from his regiment. I have heard him say that they could do nothing without him. Man. His regiment! What are you talking about?—what does the child mean? Myself. What do I mean!—why, that my father is an officer-man at the barracks yonder, keeping guard over the French prisoners.
Indeed, without your father you would be nothing at all. Myself. That's true; but I do not think he could be spared from his regiment. I have heard him say that they could do nothing without him. Man. His regiment! What are you talking about? what does the child mean? Myself. What do I mean! why, that my father is an officer-man at the barracks yonder, keeping guard over the French prisoners.
They can be unfettered opportunists, with nothing to think of but outwitting the enemy and saving their property and their skins. The poor British Tommy will be no match for them; nor will the British officer-man either, till he's unlearned his parade-ground etiquette, and his haw-haw red-tape methods and manner, and learned their very primitive but very cute and foxy ones.
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