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Updated: May 2, 2025
No, they don't live in hovels. Those who go home but once a week are housed in good wooden sheds, or corrugated iron buildings, with good beds and bedclothes. There are about forty of them in a hut, with a hut-keeper to look after them and to keep order. For this excellent lodging they are charged sixpence a week, and all their prog is supplied at wholesale prices.
"Not a stick left," replied the captain. "An' the boat?" inquired Briant. "It's gone too, I fancy; but we can't be sure." "Then it's all up, boys," observed Briant; "for nearly every morsel o' the prog that wos on the top o' the bank is washed away." This piece of news fell like a thunderbolt on the men, and no one spoke for some minutes. At last the captain said
This valiant determination put an end to Bates's wavering, and with a rueful face he joined us. "Now, mind," said Rasper, "the first you see!" "Well," exclaimed I, starting suddenly to run, "that's Cad Prog, the butcher-boy, there; come along." So it was! Of all our enemies Cad Prog was the most truculent, and most feared.
Each promised to contribute sixpence, and told her where to find their purses, so that they need not arouse suspicion by visiting their dormitories in a body. "We'll be lighting the fire while you get the prog," they assured her.
The best horse, one that had carried me many a weary mile and day without failing, could not move a hoof when the purchaser came to take him. Like other veterans, long unaccustomed to abundance of prog, he had overfed and was badly foundered.
The sight of his red head coming round the corner was always enough to strike panic into a score of youngsters, and even we bigger boys always looked meek when Prog came out to defy us. He was strolling guilelessly along, and didn't see us at first. Then suddenly he caught sight of us approaching, and next moment the blue apron and red head disappeared with a bolt round the corner.
"A load of prog, boys!" gleefully shouted a second, and both doors were flung open, and the soldiers were quickly crowding each other in their endeavours to get a share. "Egad!" announced another, "but I'll have a tousel and a buss from yon lass on the box." "Well said!" cried a fourth, and both sprang on the wheel, as a first step to the attainment of their wishes. Mr.
I smiled because he smiled, but I was a little troubled in my mind, too. 'Well! said Steerforth. 'We must make it stretch as far as we can; that's all. I'll do the best in my power for you. I can go out when I like, and I'll smuggle the prog in. With these words he put the money in his pocket, and kindly told me not to make myself uneasy; he would take care it should be all right.
"How do you manage about the prog, chum?" "Mr. Le Grand had a man a Maryland darky whom he turned over to me. He looks after me generally, but his true forte is cooking. For oysters and fish and game I can't find his equal. And, as I never attempt very elaborate dinners, he cooks and serves for a party of six in very good shape.
I took the bag frae your hands, and I put it back intil your hands, e'en just as I took it, without ever once seeing the inside o' it," boldly replied the girl. A volley of curses from the man followed, and then he inquired: "Was the bag out of your possession at any time since you received it?" "Na, not ance." "Then that infernal valet has taken the lion's share of the prog!
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