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Me free man, and true Barbadian born. Go along, you man-of-war man. "Man-of-war, buccra, Man-of-war, buccra. He de boy for me; Sodger, buccra, Sodger, buccra, Nebba, nebba do. Nebba, nebba do for me; Sodger give one shilling, Sailor give me two. "Massa, now suppose you give me only one pictareen now. You really handsome young gentleman."
"Faix, it's little I thought I'd ever envy a sodger any more; but someway, I wish I was going with you." "Nothing easier, Mike," said another, laughing. "Oh, true for you, but that's not the way I'd like to do it.
"Faith, I'm thinkin' thim that makes it wud do betther to cut up the Colonel. He carries a power av liver undher his right arrum whin the days are warm an' the nights chill. He wud give thim tons an' tons av liver. 'Tis he sez so. 'I'm all liver to-day, sez he; an' wid that he ordhers me ten days C.B. for as moild a dhrink as iver a good sodger took betune his teeth."
He was fond of a lass and fond of a glass, and fond of a ran-dan; but I could never hear tell that he was muckle use for honest employment. Frae ae thing to anither, he listed at last for a sodger, and was in the garrison of this fort, which was the first way that ony of the Dales cam to set foot upon the Bass. Sorrow upon that service!
For that, weel may the sun shine a celestial rosy reid, an' weel may the boatie row, an' weel may the stars luik doon, blinkin' an' luikin' again ilk ane duin' its bonny pairt to mak a man a richt hertit guid willed sodger!" "And, pray, what may be your rank in this wonderful army?" asked Lady Florimel, with the air and tone of one humouring a lunatic.
With that, having laid aside his gun, which, as he represented, could be, in such an undertaking, of no service, and directed Stackpole to do the same, he shook Roland by the hand, and, waiting an instant till Ralph had followed his example, and added his farewell in the brief phrase, "Sodger, I'm atter my mistress; and, for all Nathan's small talk about massacree and captivation, we'll fetch her, with a most beautiful lot of hosses; so thar's no fawwell about it," turned to little Peter, whom he addressed quite as gravely as he had done the Virginian.
When I reached the admiral's house, I found him busy at the entertainment of a party of "sodger officers" from the garrison. I was shown into his private room; and in a few minutes the gallant old veteran stumped in on his wooden leg, and saluted me with, "Well, youngster, whose cat is dead now?
"You will not do that again, sir," said he, as he got up and put himself on his guard. The fellow laughed again more strangely and awkwardly than before; then, bending his body and moving his head from one side to the other as a cat does before she springs, and crying out, "Here's for ye, sodger!" he made a dart at Bagg, rushing in with his head foremost.
As for Miss Conny, in spite of her ordinary sedateness of demeanour and constant asseveration that she would only marry a clergyman like her father, she is, to use Teddy's expressive diction, "spliced to a sodger," having become engaged some time since to a gallant captain in a marching regiment that was quartered for a while at Bigton, within easy access of Endleigh.
"Do not mention his name," said the widow, pressing his lips with her fingers. "I see you have his secret and his pass-word, and I'll be free wi' you. But, for God's sake, speak lound and low. In the name of Heaven, I trust ye seek him not to his hurt! Ye said ye were a sodger?" "I said truly; but one he has nothing to fear from. I commanded a party at Bothwell Bridge." "Indeed?" said the woman.
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