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"How do you know we ar-re?" asked Katie. "The ladies all shtrip fur dinner!" Jimmie simply shrieked when I told him, but Bee failed to see anything in it but an excellent reason why Norah should be discharged. Poor Bee!
'Shtrip boys! sez I. 'Shtrip to the buff, an' shwim in where glory waits! 'But I can't shwim! sez two av thim. 'To think I should live to hear that from a bhoy wid a board-school edukashin! sez I. 'Take a lump av timber, an' me an' Conolly here will ferry ye over, ye young ladies! "We got an ould tree-trunk, an' pushed off wid the kits an' the rifles on it.
Shtrip bhoys! I heard him laugh; an' the bhoys begun shtrippin' an' rollin' a log into the wather to put their kits on. So me an' Conolly shtruck out through the warm wather wid our log, an' the rest come on behind. "That shtrame was miles woide! Orth'ris, on the rear-rank log, whispers we had got into the Thames below Sheerness by mistake.
I never shtrip at night, but just throws my blanket over me, an' sleeps like a top. Glory be to God! Oh, then, there's nothing like the health ma'am: may God spare it to us! Amin, this night!"
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