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"If he be a rebel and a spy, why, in God's name, should he carry your Lordship's letters to any but some rag-tag colonel of his own kidney?" My Lord laughed again. "Truly, Major, you should go to a dame's school and learn diplomacy.
Chamberlain had come down and joined in the fray lending his authority to tactics which usually had been left to the rag-tag and bobtail of all parties. As I have already said, this kind of intervention had seriously diminished Mr. Chamberlain in the respect of the House. And the way in which he did his work was venomous as well as petty.
"Where is she now?" the little old woman asked fiercely. "She's asleep in the bed, Granny," said the Brown Doll. "Pinch her good, Granny!" cried the Wax Doll. "Put out her eyes!" "Scratch her, Granny! Pull out her hair!" pleaded the Brown Doll. "Bump her head against the wall, Granny! Mash her nose!" exclaimed the Jip-jap Doll. The Rag-Tag Doll said not a word.
This experience is making England over again. There never was a more interesting thing to watch and to be part of. There are about twenty American organizations here big, little, rag-tag, and bobtail. When we declared war, every one of 'em proceeded to prepare for some sort of celebration.
Aunty Boone, and Mat, and you, and me, and Jondo, and Uncle Esmond, rag-tag and bobtail. Whoop-ee-diddle-dee!" Beverly threw up his cap, and, catching Mat by the arms, they whirled around the room together. "Who says so, Bev?" I asked, eagerly. "Them as knows and bosses everything in this world. Jondo told me, and he's just the boss's shadow. Now guess who," Beverly replied.
"I have no doubt the rag-tag politicians, if not too busy scheming how to cripple General Washington, will set to on some such piece of folly, for by their persecutions and acts of outlawry and escheatage they have driven into Toryism enough to almost offset the Whigs the British plundering has made. But from this you can be saved if you will but let me."
Not a dozen yards from where we camped was a rose-tree-think of it, Belgard, a rose-tree on a rag-tag island of Lake Superior! 'There's luck in odd numbers, says Rory O'More. 'There's luck here, said I; and at it we went just beside the rose-tree. What's the result?
And now the tail end of the regiment was passing, the materiel of the batteries, prolonges, forges, forage-wagons, succeeded by the rag-tag, the spare men and horses, and then all vanished in a cloud of dust at another turn in the road amid the gradually decreasing clatter of hoofs and wheels.
"She's mashed my nose flat!" cried the Jip-jap Doll. "She's put one of my eyes out!" whined the Brown Doll. "She's put chalk all over me!" blubbered the Black Doll. "She hasn't hurt me!" exclaimed the Rubber Doll. "She's made a hole in my back, and the sawdust is all running out!" whined Rag-Tag. "I'll attend to you first, before you bleed to death," said the little old woman, frowning.
He reached for his pocketbook. "Never mind, Uncle Frank," said the commissioner, in a softer tone. "There's no need of that. She hasn't asked for anything of that sort yet. Besides, her case is in my hands. I see now what a little, rag-tag, bob-tail, gotch-eared department I've been put in charge of. It seems to be about as important as an almanac or a hotel register.
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