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But I do not know that the Primrose League is any improvement upon it, and I fancy that when the Duke of Rutland looks back across the half-century he sees something to smile at, but nothing to blush for. One of the notions that Young England had got hold of was that famous saying of Fletcher of Saltoun's friend about making the ballads of a people.
Saltoun's arrival there were now present Dolan, who combined with his office of justice of the peace that of coroner, and twelve good men and true, the coroner's jury and most intimate friends, ready and willing at any and all times to serve the territory for ten dollars a day and expenses. Punch-the-breeze Thompson had returned with the sheriff.
He'd never take a second mortgage." "Naw, naw, that ain't gonna be the way of it a-tall. It will be fixed so's Old Salt's mortgage won't go into effect till the first one's paid off." "But then till the first one is paid off maybe it will be three-four days Old Salt's five thousand will be unsecured." "It won't be unsecured. It won't go out of Saltoun's hands. He'll pay off the mortgage himself."
A careful reconnaissance revealed the presence of three strong encampments at some distance from the town, and the first operation was to carry them, and to prevent their garrisons joining such forces as might still remain in the city. This attack was intrusted to Lord Saltoun's brigade, which was composed of two Scotch regiments and portions of two native regiments, with only three guns.
A body of seamen and marines, however, under Captain Peter Richards, took an active part in the engagement, accompanied by Sir William Parker, who forced his way with the general through the gates of the city. Lord Saltoun's brigade was the first on shore, and, gallantly attacking the Chinese encamped outside the walls, soon drove them over the hills.
"What was the fight about, Thompson?" "Cards," said Thompson, laconically, switching his eyes briefly to Mr. Saltoun's face. "And the stranger cold-decked him?" inquired Racey. "Something like that, but I can't say for shore. I wasn't playing with him. Doc Coffin was, and so was Honey Hoke and Peaches Austin.
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