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"Well, of all the pot calling kettle black as ever I knowed on," said Tom Fillot, "that's about the rummest. Why, your head's all o' one side like an ugly turmut, and your eyes is on'y two slits." "We ain't none on us got much to boast on, 'cept our orficer," said Dick Bannock. "Pass that there tin." "To be sure," said Tom Fillot, "and handsome is as handsome does.
To Bob's astonishment the man jumped up, pulled his forelock, and kicked out his right leg behind. "Why didn't you say you was a orficer afore?" he cried. "Going to see your father, eh! Well, now, that is rum. I've just been to see my old mother at Ringwood, and going back to my ship Old Bull." "The what?" said Bob, who felt puzzled.
It was an awful charge to bring against an orficer, d'you see? I told myself I didn't know but what the Captain hadn't been taken prisoner and was makin' the best of it, w'en I see him, stuffin' the Fritzes up with a lot o' lies. And so I jes' reported as how th' orficer 'ad crawled out of the trench and never come back. And then this here murder happened..." Mr. Marigold turned to the Chief.
"Well, sir, you're orficer, and I'm on'y AB, and I shan't contradict you; have it that way if you like." "I shall say no more, but we'll see what Mr Reardon says when he hears about it." "Why, Mr Herrick, sir, yo' wouldn't go and tell upon the poor lads, would you? It were on'y a bit of a game, were it, Mr Ching?" "No, only bit game," said the Chinaman. "There, you hear, sir.
But a low cuss named Iago, who I bleeve wants to git Otheller out of his snug government birth, now goes to work & upsets the Otheller family in most outrajus stile. Iago falls in with a brainless youth named Roderigo & wins all his money at poker. Mike Cassio, a Irishman, is selected as a tool by Iago. Mike was a clever feller & a orficer in Otheller's army.
I wonder why they didn't strike me as they did you." "'Cause you're a boy, sir, though you are a young gentleman, and a orficer. Fine thing to be a boy, sir. I was one once upon a time. Wish I was a boy at home now, instead o' having a head like this here." "I'm thinking of what the captain will say," muttered Mark, despondently, as he ignored the man's remark. "Say, sir?
All she says to me was, like she was a Sergeant Major and I was a recruity, 'You get into this buggy, Patrick McGillicuddy. So, as orders is orders, sir, I got in, and I stayed in until my fears of that horse's hind feet right under nay nose got the better of my duty to Missis McGillicuddy, as my superior orficer.
I see him come scramblin' over the back gate and was a-goin' to stop him thinkin' it was th' orficer here w'en I sees it is a tubby little chap, not big like the Captain. And then it come over me quite sudden-like that burglary and murder had been done in the house and wot would I say if a p'liceman come along? So I slipped off and went as hard as I could go back to the old Union Jack Club.
Two orficers is two; six AB's and coxswain seven, and seven and two's nine; and the two nig blacks, sir; nine and two's 'leven. That's right, sir 'leven." "Go round then, and count." "I think they could all answer to their names, sir, now, if I might be so bold." "Call them over, then." "Ay, ay, sir. Here goes, then, lads. First orficer, Mr Russell, sir, and you, sir's, two as we needn't count.
The old butler took a more single-minded and old-fashioned line. 'Ketch 'old of 'im! he thought. 'With these low fellers there's nothin' else to be done. Ketch 'old of 'im until he squeals. Nodding his ancient head, he said: "Here's an orficer. I shan't speak for yer; you deserves all you'll get, and more."
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