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"Orficers' mess grub better'n we do, yer know," he replied, winking with the whole side of his face. "Yes, I dare say they do, but that's got nothing to do with it," said George. "Ho, 'asn't it! They tells me as you are a-goin' to be made a horsifer." Our hero laughed, and the man looked offended. "No, no, that's wrong.
Joe Dance, answer to your name." "Ay, ay," came in a growl. "Dick Bannock." "Here." "Bill Billings." "What's left on me, mate." "Sam Grote." "Here, but ain't got no head." "Bob Stepney." "Here; and wish I warn't," came surlily out of the darkness. "Don't you be sarcy 'fore your orficers, Bob, or there may be a row," said Tom Fillot, sharply.
"Frenchy was all talk about our being orficers and gentlemen if we rose again Captain Berriman, but as soon as we did rose he pumps hisself up, and it's all Captain Jarette, and every one else is nobody at all 'cept for him to cuss at." "That was so," growled Hampton.
You are to go into the orderly room and wash all the dishes: then you go and run messages, then you 'old the orficer's horse and then maybe when you're worryin' your own bit of grub they come and bundle you out to sweep up the orficers' mess, or run an errand for the 'ead cook and bottle-washer. Light duties ain't arf a job.
I'm waiting to see him down some day, and carry him in." "To be sure," growled old Dick. "Orficers is orficers, and there 'aint one aboard this ship as wouldn't jump overboard to save any man, even if it was such a grumbling warmint as old Sim here."
"Look-a-here, Solomon Ezekiel Pickup," shouted Sergeant Halligan savagely, "it's against the regulations to talk to your superior orficers so damned impudent, and I'm a going to prefer charges against you, and you can face three months in the military prison for it. And I'm a-thinkin' that Briggs, the drill sergeant, will put you on the kickingest horse in the regimental stables.
"State of affairs is, that all the orficers and you the doctor, along with the passengers, is prisoners, and Frenchy Jarette's skipper of the Burgh Castle, with that there rat of a 'prentice or middy, or whatever he calls hisself, first mate." "But where are we going?" said Mr Frewen. "Nobody knows but Frenchy, and there is times when I think he don't know.
"And one of our nice hansum young orficers," continued Dick, in the most solemn way, "and a middy and some smart Jacks." "And Dick Dunnage," said one of the soldiers. "Well, he did mention me, but I was too modest to say so." Here there was another laugh.
McGillicuddy, "I haven't been a sergeant's wife for twenty years without findin' out that nobody can't say a word about the orficers, but I do think, mum, as three days in the guardhouse for poor Kettle, who was bamboozled by Tim Gully and Mike Halligan, is one of the cruelest things a commandin' orficer ever done.
"That's 'im," explained their owner, nudging a big man in shabby white drill, who was shouldering a deliberate way through the press. "The Colonel and ain't 'e a Regular Oner! Them along of 'im with the red shoulder-straps and brown leather leggin's, they're cav'l'ry Orficers o' the Staff, they are. An' them others in khâki with puttees syme as wot I've got on they're the Medical Swells.
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