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And so we drew nigh to Gloucester town, and then the old Betsy told me that Jan was there with his ridgment, and that I must find he by myself. And she wished me good-bye, and then the poor soul fell a-crying, for she said that there was no one left now to be kind to her. 'And there's hard times before 'ee, my tender, she saith I mind the words well 'but not yet.
I have called as the spokesman of my mates at the gunner's barracks to say that we are proud to have you in the town, sir." Old Brewster chuckled and rubbed his bony hands. "That were what the Regent said," he cried. "'The ridgment is proud of ye, says he. 'And I am proud of the ridgment, says I. 'And a damned good answer too, says he, and he and Lord Hill bu'st out a-laughin'."
'The ridgment is proud of you, says he. 'And I'm proud of the ridgment, say I. 'A damned good answer too! says he to Lord Hill, and they both bu'st out a-laughin'. But what be you a-peepin' out o' the window for?" "Oh, uncle, here's a regiment of soldiers coming down the street with the band playing in front of them." "A ridgment, eh? Where be my glasses?
"Ay do they, so well that they get sometimes into very close an' lovin' grips togather; if ever there was a scald alive she's one o' them, an' him that was wanst so careless and aisey-tempered, she has now made him as bad as herself has trained him regularly until he has a tongue that would face a ridgment.
What a pitiful cowardly rascal you are! Afraid o' your own shadow afther the 'sun goes down, except I'm at your elbow! Can't you dhrive all them palavers out o' your head? Didn't the sargint tell us, an' prove to us, the time we broke the guardhouse, an' took Frinch lave o' the ridgment for good, that the whole o' that, an' more along wid it, is all priestcraft?"
It was a fine ridgment, and they only need me to make up a full muster." "Tut, tut! they'll have to wait years for that," said the gentleman heartily. "But I am the colonel of the Scots Guards, and I thought I would like to have a word with you." Old Gregory Brewster was up in an instant, with his hand to his rabbit-skin cap. "God bless me!" he cried, "to think of it! to think of it!"
"What's the matter?" was the reply; and the boy gazed in his face in a dazed, half-stupid way. "Don't you remember, lad?" "No," was the reply. "Where's the ridgment?" "Over yonder. Somewhere about the mouth of the valley, I expect." "Oh, all right. What time is it?" "I should think about five. Why?" "Why?" said the boy. "Because there will be a row. Why are we here?"
I tell 'ee, my Lady, that some men was even blind with the toil of that march, and hunger and cold and misery. "So there I was alone with my boy, for hardly a man of Jan's company was left and not many of the whole ridgment, while what there was of them was mostly sick. 'Twas lucky that I had money, or I can't think what I should have done.
Well, although Pon's income would make up almost as much as that of these three worthies put together oh, my dear Madam, see in what hopeless penury the poor fellow lives! What tenant can look to HIS forbearance? What poor man can hope for HIS charity? 'Master's the best of men, honest Stripes says, 'and when we was in the ridgment a more free-handed chap didn't live.
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