I've fought for my country and my country has done darned little for me.

I'll go to the Rooshians, so help me! I could show them how to cross the Himalayas so that it would puzzle either Afghans or British to stop 'em.

What's that secret worth in St.Petersburg, eh, mister ?" "I am ashamed to hear an old soldier speak so, even in jest," said I sternly.
"Jest, indeed!" He cried, with a great, roaring oath.

"I'd have done it years ago if the Rooshians had been game to take it up.

Skobeloff was the best of the bunch, but he's been snuffed out.