You'd sooner loaf about and pick up what you can--sooner than serve His Majesty.

Well, well, there's no compulsion--not yet; but you should think over it.

Come and see me, if you like, when you've done your time, and we'll see what can be done.

That'd be better than loafing about and picking up tins of salmon, eh ?" "Well, I've no more to say.

But you just think over it.