sixty-sixes

Updated: May 20, 2025

"Sixty-six!" roared the sergeant; "no more than yours is they are both sixty-sixes when you play tricks with them, and turn them up like that; but they are both ninety-nines when you look at them fair." Dard scratched his head. "Come," said the corporal, briskly, "make up his bundle, girl, and let us be off; we have got our marching orders; going to the Rhine."

Charles Reade - White Lies