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"Used to say 'I'm a man of few words'?" Slavin nodded affirmatively. "That's him, Sarjint in charrge av th' town station he was years back. This is whin I was Corp'ril at headquarthers. A foine big roosther av a man was Nobby, wid a mighty pleasant way wid um 'specially wid th' ladies. Wan night blarney me sowl! Will I iver forghet ut?
"Time an' agin," Slavin was declaiming in impotent rage and with upraised fist, "Time an' ag'in have we shtruck a lead on this blasted case on'y tu find ut peter out agin. . . . Oh! how long, O Lord? how long? . . ." MacDavid stopped in turn. "Here's th' other two, Sarjint," he said. Slavin dropped the shells into his pocket and for a space he remained in deep thought.
It wor right-down beautiful tay; so I has another one to the hilth of Bridget's husband the sarjint, an' thin another, that wor a little one faith! to the hilth of the babby; an', begorrah, sor, I rimimbers no more till this mornin' whin I fales so bad wid the rheumatics as I couldn't lift me hid out of me hammock.
The others got tired o' being mauled around, and starved, and tyrannized over, and o' fighting for the nigger, and they skipped for home like sensible men." The boys shuddered at the doleful picture. "Who brung you here?" continued the newcomer. "Sarjint Klegg and Corpril Elliott," answered Harry. "Holy smoke," said the newcomer with a look of disgust.
Eyah! he talks av some quare parts he's been in. Fwhat doin'? Lord knows. Been up an' down the ladder some in this outfit sarjint one week full buck private next. Yen know th' way these ginthlemin-rankers run amuck?" "How does he get away with it every time?" queried Redmond. "Hasn't any civilian ever reported him to the old man?"
He even orders you and Sarjint Klegg. Is he the biggest man in the army?" "Well, SO far's you're concerned and to all general purposes he is. You needn't pay no partickler attention as a rule to nobody else, but when the Orderly speaks, you jump, and the quicker you jump the better it'll be for you.
"They don't steer as well on land as on sea," replied Hardy. "'Cause they ain't used to such craft, you see that's w'ere it is, sarjint," said the old salt, removing his pipe for a moment. "Just look at 'em some comin' along sidewise like crabs, others stern foremost. W'y, there's that grey craft wi' the broad little man holdin' on to its tail to prevent his slidin' over its head.
It was terrible to see mun looking them over, for you could see that he feeled for them; but then he would open his mouth and give the word to march in a voice that made you jump to hear. And when once they was a-moving, if ever a man dropped behind, a sarjint went at mun for all the world like a sheep-dog, and a dog that knowed how to use his teeth too.
"Yes!" said Lee, "he pulled in las' night t' catch th' nine-thirty down t' Calgary. He ain't back yet." "Fwas he " Slavin checked himself abruptly "fwhat toime did he get in here?" "'Bout nine." "Fwhat toime 'bout fwas ut whin this racket shtarted up betune Windy an' Larry?" "Oh, I dunno, Sarjint! 'bout nine, may be as I say I "
It's out here oi'll sthand, glory be to God, all night, without movin' a fut till the sarjint comes to take me, av ye won't levil them oiyes at me like that. Ah, whirra! look at that now! but it's a gooddess she is the livin' Jaynus of warr, standin' there like a statoo, wid her alybaster fut put forward."
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