human
Warm day, Sir:--your health. Oh! forgot you emptied jug--baugh! You said you were not now in his Majesty's service: beg pardon--were you ever?
gpt
Why, once I was; many years ago.
human
Ah!--and what regiment? I was in the forty-second. Heard of the forty- second? Colonel's name, Dysart; captain's, Trotter; corporal's, Bunting, at your service.
gpt
I am much obliged by your confidence, said the Traveller drily.
human
I dare say you have seen much service.
gpt
Service! Ah! may well say that;--twenty-three years' hard work: and not the better for it! A man that loves his country is 'titled to a pension-- that's my mind!--but the world don't smile upon corporals--augh!
human
I hope yourself and this gentleman will bear me company,