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Snawdor's demise he had been canonized, becoming the third member of the ghostly firm of Molloy, Yager, and Snawdor. "What about Uncle Jed?" asked Nance. "Where's he going?" Mrs. Snawdor laughed consciously and, in doing so, exhibited to full advantage the dazzling new teeth that were the pride of her life. "Oh, Mr. Burks is goin' with us," she said.
I tell you what: let’s have a game of cards, of vingt et un or whist; or shall we start a mazurka? Hey, in the name of three hundred devils, why, I am the best dancer of the mazurka in the whole yager regiment!” Thereupon he leaned forward closer to the ladies, and puffed out smoke and compliments by turns.
"'Lo," said the boy with an ingratiating smile. "My name's John Fletcher." "Mine's Francis Yager," spoken with equal curtness. "Live here?" asked the first baseman of the "Tigers." The boy admitted that such was the case. "There's my house," explained John, pointing with an inkstained finger. There was an awkward silence. Francis bounced his ball against the side of the house a few times.
SERGEANT. Sir Yager, I can't but with pity melt, When I think how much among boors you've dwelt. The clever knack and the proper tone, Are caught by the general's side alone.
FIRST YAGER. Provided you can but read and write. SERGEANT. Now, hark to an instance of this from me, And one, which I've lived myself to see There's Butler, the chief of dragoons, why he, Whose rank was not higher a whit than mine, Some thirty years since, at Cologne on Rhine, Is a major-general now because He put himself forward and gained applause; Filling the world with his martial fame, While slept my merits without a name.
ARTILLERYMAN. Heyday! you'll find you're a wiseacre yet. The above Two Yagers. Afterwards Sutler-woman, Soldier-boy, Schoolmaster, Servant-girl. FIRST YAGER. See! see! Here meet we a jovial company! TRUMPETER. Who can these greencoats be, I wonder, That strut so gay and sprucely yonder!
We we of his splendors have no part, Naught but hard wearying toil and care, And the pride that lives in a soldier's heart. SECOND YAGER. All great tyrants and kings have shown Their wit, as I take it, in what they've done; They've trampled all others with stern command, But the soldier they've led with a gentle hand.
FIRST YAGER. Well, all things seem in a flourishing way, But what have you done with the Scotchman, say, Who once in the camp was your constant flame? SUTLER-WOMAN. A villain, who tricked me clean, that same He bolted, and took to himself whate'er I'd managed to scrape together, or spare, Leaving me naught but the urchin there. Mother, is it my papa you name?
These were gathered up and altered or improved, and issued to the troops. Many of the regiments went into the field armed with every description of guns, from the small-bore squirrel-rifle and double-barreled shot-gun to the ponderous Queen Bess musket and clumsy but effective German Yager.
The moment he had delivered his fire, he leaped upon his well-trained horse, and rode off towards the others. All three were for a short while together Hendrik holding his yäger cocked and ready, while Swartboy grasped his bow and arrows. But the lion dashed forward before either could fire; and they were obliged to spur and gallop out of his way.
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