Temat postu: On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Publishedaamgsh
it to this passis not
very likely to soothe down border feelings among English subjects
hereor compose their border quarrels and dislikes.
I was standing on the wharf at this placewatching the passengers
embarking in a steamboat which preceded that whose coming we
awaitedand participating in the anxiety with which a sergeant’s wife
was collecting her few goods together —keeping one distracted eye
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hard upon the porterswho were hurrying them on boardand the
other on a hoopless washing-tub for whichas being the most utterly
worthless of all her movablesshe seemed to entertain particular af-
fection —when three or four soldiers with a recruit came up and
went on board.
The recruit was a likely young fellow enoughstrongly built and
well madebut by no means sober: indeed he had all the air of a man
who had been more or less drunk for some days. He carried a small
bundle over his shoulderslung at the end of a walking-stickand had
a short pipe in his mouth. He was as dusty and dirty as recruits usually
areand his [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych] betokened that he had travelled on foot some dis-
tancebut he was in a very jocose stateand shook hands with this
soldierand clapped that onyilai:
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