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By dint of exchanging and volunteering and asking, and generally bothering people in a thick-skinned, dull way, he always managed to get to the front, where his competitors the handful of modern knights-errant who mean to make a career in the army, and inevitably succeed were not afraid of him, and laughingly liked him. And the barrack-room balladists had discovered that White rhymes with Fight.
Here, in the years gone by, did Private Ortheris establish his depot and menagerie for such possessions, dead and living, as could not safely be introduced to the barrack-room. Here were gathered Houdin pullets, and fox-terriers of undoubted pedigree and more than doubtful ownership, for Ortheris was an inveterate poacher and pre-eminent among a regiment of neat-handed dog-stealers.
If, as is generally the case, the barrack-room he represents contains twelve men, he orders a twenty-four gallon barrel of porter always porter; and if he has a surplus left he disburses it in the purchase of a bottle or two of spirits, for the behoof of any fair visitors who may haply honour the barrack-room with their presence. It is Christmas Eve.
"None the better for being carried back and asked to sympathize with a barbarous age." The Goblin smiled and clutched his arm; they again sped rapidly away through the black night, and again halted. "What do you see?" said the Goblin. "I see a barrack-room, with a mess-table, and a group of intoxicated Celtic officers telling funny stories, and giving challenges to duel.
And the raw recruit was drilling his barrack-room comrades before he or they had fitted on a uniform, and his ringing 'Carry so! or 'Ground oh! sounded through the square as imperiously as any in those first busy days. 'You've got the powers that be behind you, and you'll be one of us in a month or two. Promotion's quick when the word comes for blood and rust and mud and oil.
In the early days we were instructed in the various do's and don't's of army life and introduced to the Army Act and King's Regulations. We were told that "barrack-room lawyers" were not permitted to quote from these.
Mulvaney was shaking him savagely. Meantime the men in the room howled with delight. There was war in the confederacy at last war and the breaking of bonds. Barrack-room etiquette is stringent. On the direct challenge must follow the direct reply. This is more binding than the ties of tried friendship. Once again Mulvaney repeated the question.
'Peacockses? queried Ortheris from the safe rest of a barrack-room table whereon he was smoking cross-legged, Learoyd fast asleep on a bench. 'Jock, said Mulvaney without answering, as he stirred up the sleeper. 'Jock, can ye fight? Will ye fight? Very slowly the meaning of the words communicated itself to the half- roused man. He understood and again what might these things mean?
He was too pleased with his room-mate's request. In next to no time with a kind of barrack-room lick and polish Fandor-Vinson had washed his face, had dressed, was ready. "My dear Abbé," said he, "if you would like me to, I will ascertain whether your chauffeur is up, and will tell him to get ready to start." "I was going to ask you to do that very thing, Corporal."
"Thank God, thank God!" he fervently exclaimed: "I have not then even the death of poor Donellan to answer for;" and hastening from the guard-room, he pursued his course hurriedly and delightedly to the barrack-room of his friend.
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