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Updated: May 4, 2025
And you mind her son, my Lady, him that went for a marine, and what terrible shakums he had when he comed back from the Injies. And I consider that they stolen chimases is a jidgment, my Lady, a jidgment for the mischief her fowls have done in my garden "
The conversation would have lingered long on the symptoms of "shakums," or in other words of ague, had not some one called to mind the bill on the church-door about the deserter. Then the tongues were set wagging afresh. Two guineas were a lot of money, they said, but soldiers was often badly served, and 'twas no wonder they runned away.
Fry, and lamented that her ladyship should be so misguided as to employ a man like the Corporal, for it would surely end in no good, sojers never did. Look at Mrs. Mugford's boy that went for a marine, and came back with the shakums so bad that you could hear his teeth chattering a mile away when the fit was on him.
Mugford, I says, 'if those that talks about pigs would look to their own boys, they wouldn't run off to sea and come home with the shakums, I says; 'and if they would keep their fowls from scratting about in their neighbours' gardens, I says, 'they wouldn't run about crying for lost chimases. For there's hardly a day but I drive her fowls from my garden, my Lady.
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