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Updated: May 23, 2025
All these men, men we've known, men we've got accustomed to, even men we like, to be herded to the penitentiary. It's awful. There's some I shouldn't be sorry to see put away. They're scallywags, anyway. They aren't clean, and they chew tobacco, and and curse like railroaders. But they aren't all like that are they, Kate?" She paused.
He made some arrangements, for he informed us that in the afternoon we would see some fellow whose title he could not translate into Dutch. I judged he was a great swell, for his voice became reverential at the mention of him. He took us for a walk that morning after Peter and I had attended to our toilets. We were an odd pair of scallywags to look at, but as South African as a wait-a-bit bush.
"One of them scallywags sez 'e 'as seen a ghost," he announced, with the calm air of a man who states that the moon will rise during the next hour. "I wish he could see less remarkable things, such as schooners, sir," said Hozier. "But 'e swears 'e sawr it twiced." "Oh, is he the man who reported a ghost outside the lazarette last night?" "I s'pose so. Did 'e tell you about it?
You haven't taken me very much into your confidence, van Heerden." "You know everything." Milsom chuckled. "I know that in the safe of my office you have a thousand sealed envelopes addressed, as I gather, to all the scallywags of the world, and I know pretty well what you intend doing; but how do you benefit? And how do I benefit?" Van Heerden had recovered his self-possession.
To an onlooker they would be a lot of profane scallywags without a redeeming point. What made them do it what made them obey me when I, thinking consciously how fine it was, made them drop the bunt of the foresail twice to try and do it better? What? They had no professional reputation no examples, no praise.
He was almost tearful. "Haven't I heard you, sir, saying more than twenty times since we got fired out from Manila that we should want a lot of capital to work the East Coast with? You were always telling me that to prime properly all them officials and Portuguese scallywags we should have to lose heavily at first. Weren't you always worrying about some means of getting hold of a good lot of cash?
Besides the regular troops, there were also the band of irregulars under the Sheikh Bakr, numbering 380 men, 100 men under the Sheikh of Rosaires, and a few other unclassified scallywags.
There were a couple of scallywags" it was the first time I had ever heard this modern term of reproach, and it is not surprising that I have nearly forgotten it "watching us through opera-glasses from one of the windows, and signalling to a man whom they had put on the top of our club, and who was listening through the ventilator to the speeches."
Office is the hull any of the scallywags jine 'em for, and I may as well go in for a sheer," said he, thinking if he could not have the privilege of selling liquor, he would at least secure the right of arresting those who drank it!
"Why, boys," said he, when we asked him to undertake the job, "I'd do more than this to help friends and neighbours. It's a dooty to hunt down these scallywags, a dooty, yas and a pleasure." We took the trail that night. The thief, so far as we could conjecture, had about twenty hours start, but then he would be obliged to travel by night and by devious mountain-paths.
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