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Piggy came along with his bristles on, and we have no shaving tackle. 'Who goes there? cried a voice in the darkness, two score yards away. 'Grand rounds, said another voice. It was Major de Blacquaire's, and Polson had not heard it since the day of the Alma, a year and three months ago. 'Halt, grand rounds, and give the countersign. 'Bonnie Dundee. 'Pass, grand rounds, and all's well.
Shun! Pursuin' practice I Prep air! Go! Shun! That's all right, sir. Ever been in the service before, young feller? 'No, said Polson. 'I always meant to join, and I thought I'd get ready as far as I could. 'Now look here, my lad, said the Sergeant. 'You've been through the mill before, you have. You're a deserter, you know, that's what you are. Polson laughed.
You may be as fit as a fiddle again in a month or two, and may have your fill of fighting for Queen and country; but I have done my last day's work, and that is a weary thing to think of. 'Last day's fighting, sir? said Polson, 'but not the last day's work.
Polson was greatly interested, but in the very act of turning over to look at his enemy, and to find out whom he was addressing, he fell into a deep sleep. The next time he came back to consciousness it was dark, except for a sickly burning oil lamp on a sconce fixed against a wall at a little distance.
John Jervase stooped to kiss Polson on the forehead, and went his way down the silent ward, with his boots creaking with a fainter and fainter sound, until he reached the folding doors at the far end of the dormitory. The lad lay quiet.
Wilde demanded that he should be included among the party upon the ground that he was the originator of the scheme which had brought us all to the island; and as I saw no particular reason for resisting this demand, I allowed it to pass unchallenged, merely insisting that Polson should be the leader of the expedition; while four others would necessarily have to be seamen, in order to handle the boat and bring her quickly back to the ship in the event of anything in the nature of a hasty retreat becoming advisable.
He was executed the first of June, 1730, being at the time about thirty-nine years of age. The Life of THOMAS POLSON, alias HITCHIN, a Footpad and Highwayman Habit is the most dangerous of all evils. The transports of passion are sometimes prevented from having fatal effects, either by the precautions of those with whom we quarrel, or because a sudden reflection of our own minds checks our hand.
Polson both heard and understood, but his father did neither. Within half an hour the regiment would be on the march, and already the red-coated, brass-helmeted men, shining from head to foot and glittering in the fine array war wears before the exchange of the first blows, were moving about the open.
Accordingly, at the conclusion of the meal, all hands, emigrants and seamen alike, mustered in the waist and on the quarter-deck, finding seats where they could, some of them on the rail with their feet resting on the plank-sheer, some on the after hatch, and the rest on the deck planks, while Polson, Tudsbery, Grace Hartley, and I disposed ourselves upon the poop, near enough to hear all that was said; Wilde placing himself in the centre of the fore end of the poop, where he could be seen and heard by everybody.
And Polson, toying with this, found that the bunch was held together at one end by a pin. He affixed it to his own cap. 'Now, he said, putting on the cap and rising to his feet, 'the trick's done. 'Oh, dear no! said Volnay. 'The trick isn't done yet, old fellow.
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