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Haven't you been to the doctor?" "Yes." "Well, didn't he do you any good?" "I didn't go in. When I got to his house there was a brass plate on his door 'Dr. Kurem. Ten to one' I wasn't going to monkey with a long shot like that!" Here is a story of a London "nut" who had mounted guard for the first time: The colonel had just given him a wigging because of the state of his equipment.
I ought to have reminded you to put a man there, there can be no question at all about that, but I never gave the matter a thought, and the blunder has cost us nine good seamen. I shall be lucky if I only escape with a tremendous wigging. I must bear it as well as I can.” While they were talking the sailors were busy splicing the shrouds.
When she had given them all to me, she blew kisses. I was extremely flattered. "I must have a kindly look about me," I said to myself, "for a child to smile a welcome at me like that. What is your name?" I asked her. "Marguerite," replied her mother. It was half-past six. There was a news-vendor's hard by. I bought a paper. As soon as I glanced at it I saw that I was in for a wigging.
Fortescue found it hard to get time in which to give Kettle the necessary wigging for taking the baby from his bed and carrying him out of doors at eight o'clock in the evening because he waked up and said "Horsey."
I narrowly escaped a terrible wigging." "Shall we go to Eastbourne?" I suggested eagerly. "I'll go there with you in the morning." "Or would it not be best to send an urgent wire to the address where I always write? She would then reply here, no doubt. If she's in Eastbourne, there may be reasons why she cannot come up to town. If her people are in hiding, of course she won't come.
He shall walk the quarter-deck, eh! that's a bad shot, As his daddy used to do! 'I don't see that you have anything to crow about, said a zealous junior civilian acidly. 'The Government is not exactly pleased with your work when you relieved Sanders. 'Does that mean a wigging from headquarters? said Holden with an abstracted smile. 'I think I can stand it.
They drove through the little village in the train of other carriages; and Mercedes sat erect and answered artlessly to Mr. Bowdoin's questions. He asked her whether she was happy in her home, and she said she was. Mr. Bowdoin's heart warmed at once. "You must come down here often, my dear!" he cried; thus again laying up a wigging from his auguster spouse.
As he shifted from leg to leg, holding his hat and trying to steady his twitching upper lip, he looked as one of his smallest section-bosses would have looked, if called up for a wigging. Roebuck shook hands cordially with him, responded to his nervous glance at me with: "Blacklock is practically in our directory."
"You have not talked to any one as you have done to me this morning?" "No, certainly not." "Well, then, decide while the game is in your own hand that you never will." So far from being irritated or sulky at the wigging that John was bestowing on him, Valentine was decidedly the better for it.
Of course the colonel would have given us a wigging, but at heart he would have been as pleased at the joke as any of us. But it is a different affair here." Going out, they continued their talk and arranged their plans. Late the following night two English officers rushed suddenly into a drinking-shop close to the gate through which the road to Valladolid passed.
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