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Yer orficers may row and bully yer sometimes for not being smart enough; but I never knowed a orficer yet as wasn't ready to run the same risks as the men; and when you're down, Lor' bless my 'art, nothin's too good for you. 'Member the skipper coming and bringing us horindges, Joe Tomson, when we had the feckshus fever?" "Ay, ay, mate," growled a big sun-tanned sailor.
"Especially when they ought to be orficers. Go to 'ell!" Doggie, who had suffered much in the army, but had never before been taunted with being a dilettante gentleman private, still less been consigned to hell on that account, leapt to his feet shaken by one of his rare sudden gusts of anger.
Wilkinson's mother if they'd given 'im the V.C., but there weren't no other orficers about, and they didn't take any notice of us chaps." "Talkin' of 'Ill 60," said Bert Potter, "there was that Captain I misremember 'is name you know, that bloke what got into trouble at the ole farm for giving a cow a tin o' bully beef, and the cow died next day.
"The British landed a swipe o' men at Amboy this mornin', makin' us fall back mighty quick ter Bonumtown, an' there, arter the orficers confabulated, it wuz decided thet as the bloody-backs wuz too strong ter fight, the militia and the flyin' camp thereabouts hed better go home an' look ter their families. An' so we uns come off with the rest."
James Marmaduke Trevor, of Denby Hall, laughed and slapped him on the back, and said indulgently: "Good old Mo!" At the little school-house they stopped to gossip with some of their friends who were billeted there, and they sang the praises of the Veuve Morin's barn. "I wonder you don't have the house full of orficers, if it's so wonderful," said some one.
He hitched the slack of the halliard to the bridge rail and puckered his eyes, staring across the waters of the harbour to where the roofs of houses showed among the trees. "'Ow I pities orficers!" he observed under his breath, and walked to the end of the bridge.
It was th' orficer here, in plain clothes shabby-like he was dressed but I knew him at once. "'Our orficers don't walk about these parts after midnight dressed like tramps, I sez to meself, and rememberin' what I seen at the Hohenlinden Trench I follows him..." "Just a minute!" The Chief's voice broke in upon the narrative.
Tommy, tearing on: "'Cause I ain't got no b y wings." Here's another First Tommy: "And the bullets was comin' that thick " Second Tommy: "Well, but 'adn't you got no ant'ills?" First Tommy: "Ant'ills! Why, there wasn't ant'ills 'nough for the orficers." BETHLEHEM, July 14, 1900.
But there's one crew as I'll put my shirt on, an' that's the Orficers' Gigs." "'Ow about the Boys' Cutters?" demanded the Ship's Painter whose sovereign was in jeopardy. "An' the Vet'rans' Skiffs," echoed the Captain of the Forecastle, "what my wife mentioned? 'Fred, she says " "An' the All-comers," interrupted the Captain of the Side, "wiv the Chief Buffer coxin' the launch?"
"Orficers has got the upper hand on us with loaded pistols, and you've got to knuckle down same as we have, and return to your dooty." "All right, messmate," said one of the men, shouting back so as to make his voice heard, "I don't mind; on'y what about Frenchy?" "Ay, what about Frenchy?" cried the other. "We don't want him to come cussin' us and saying it's all t'other way on."
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