I observed that he wrote a good hand, and wrote very rapidly." "I am very confident that you can trust him with your papers, Captain Passford.

He could not go into the service as a soldier or a sailor on account of his infirmity; but he desired to do something for his country.

He was determined to go to the war, as he called it, in any capacity, even if it was as a scullion.

He wrote me a letter to this effect, and Mr.Nawood consented to take him as a man of all work.
If he ever gets into an action, you will find that he is a fighting character." "That is the kind of men we want, and at the present time, when we are hardly in a fighting latitude, perhaps I can use him as a copyist, if he will agree to make no use whatever of any information he may obtain in that capacity.

I will speak to Mr.Nawood about the matter." "Thank you, Captain Passford.