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"It's true enough, Carey," said the doctor, gravely. "I've seen the bones at one of their camps after a feast." The beachcomber laughed hoarsely. "Now you know what you've got to expect, youngster; so behave yourself," he said. "Now, doctor, you know. Be civil, and I daresay we shall be very good friends; be nasty, and I shan't keep my black pack quiet, but let 'em do as they like. Hi!
But he could not stand it long; and getting Vaughan to say he might go back, he beckoned me down into our boat. As we lay back in the stern-sheets and the men gave way, he said to me: "Youngster, let that show you what it is to be without a family, without a home, and without a country.
And the wallflower woos the youth unwittingly, thinking the while she is only using her influence the better to instruct him. Indeed, the youngster who has not violently loved a woman old enough to be his mother has dropped something out of his life that he will have to go back and pick up in another incarnation.
It will be the first real home that youngster has known in all his miserable boarding-house, hotel, boys' school, and college existence. Sometimes when I think of what he's missed, of the loneliness and the neglect when I was on the road, of the barrenness of his boyhood, I " T. A. Buck started forward as one who had made up his mind about something long considered.
How much they learned from their books that night may have been a different matter. By the next day it was generally conceded among the midshipmen that the ranks of the brigade were about to be thinned as a result of the last hazing episode. Nor did the third class generally uphold Eaton and his youngster associates in the affair of the night before.
Fancourt sent self-conscious glances down the table towards Gaston; and then a young American, newly come to Paris, said: "Who's Zoug-Zoug, and what's Zoug-Zoug?" "It's milk for babes, youngster," answered Bagshot quickly, and changed the conversation.
"Oh yes, sir," I answered glibly enough, overjoyed at having little Tommy Mills as a messmate once more. "He and I are old chums, sir." "Indeed? Then there's no need for my introducing you," said the commander, with his genial laugh, which it was quite a pleasure to hear sometimes, it put one so much at one's ease. "Mind though, youngster, not too much skylarking when you get below.
Youngster, you may go to your duty, and recollect that you never again use such expressions to your superior officer, and, said he in a low tone, `I may add, never venture in my presence to make such an apology as that again." I never saw old Anderson laugh so much as he did at this story of my father's.
Dan had started into the room, and Dave was about to follow, when he heard an unusually loud thud at the further end of the deck. "Danny boy, the plebes must be getting it hard to-night." "I'd like to see the fun," muttered Dalzell, his eyes snapping with mischief. "But it doesn't seem to be any of our business. Hazing work is left in charge of the youngster crowd."
The girl's keen blue eyes perceiving, presently, an object in the distance looking like a queer combination of boy and bicycle, she ran out from the dooryard as it approached. Tim Reardon, an undersized, sharp-eyed youngster, rather poorly dressed and barefoot, wheeling his machine laboriously along, was somewhat of a mournful-looking figure. The girl held up a warning hand as he approached.
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