It's your own fault that you got those hard knocks that I see the marks of, and you will get more if you give any more trouble.

Now, those who choose to agree at once to serve her majesty can come on deck." Jack at once stepped forward.
"I am ready to serve, sir," he said.
"That's right," the officer replied heartily; "you are a lad of spirit, I can see, and will make a good soldier.

You look young yet, but that's all in your favor; you will be a sergeant at an age when others are learning their recruit drill.

Now, who's the next ?" Some half dozen of the others followed Jack's example, but the rest were still too sore and angry to be willing to do anything voluntarily.
Jack leaped lightly up on deck and looked round; the cutter was already under weigh, and with a gentle breeze was running along the smooth surface of Southampton waters; the ivy covered ruins of Netley Abbey were abreast of them, and behind was the shipping of the port.
"Well, young un," an old sergeant said, "so I suppose you have agreed to serve the queen ?" "As her majesty was so pressing," Jack replied with a smile, "you see I had no choice in the matter." "That's right," the sergeant said kindly; "always keep up your spirits, lad.

Care killed a cat, you know.