[The Adventures of Harry Revel by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Harry Revel CHAPTER II 2/10
"Thee must be quick about it, then," said the Quaker lady.
And he was. I suppose this anecdote encouraged me to be more familiar with Mr. George.
At any rate, I confided to him next day that I thought of being a soldier. "Do you know what we used to say in the Navy ?" he answered.
"We used to say, 'A friend before a messmate, a messmate before a shipmate, a shipmate before a dog, and a dog before a soldier.'" "You think," said I, somewhat discouraged, "that the Navy would be a better opening for me ?" "Ay," he answered again, eyeing me gloomily; "that is, if so be ye can't contrive to get to jail." He cast a glance down upon his jury-leg and patted the straps of it with his open palm.
"The leg, now, that used to be here--I left it in a French prison called Jivvy, and often I thinks to myself, 'That there leg is having better luck than the rest of me.' And here's another curious thing.
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