Viking Bob
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This is a troop54 kit of the 88th Foot (Connaught Rangers) "the Devils own".
Depicted during the Autumn of 1809. All painted in acrylics.
I give you the devils own footpads
“Pray, sir,” said, or rather roared Picton, addressing the soldier, “what have you got there?”
Pic. “A what?”
Sol. “A goat, sir. In Ireland we call a buck-goat a puckawn. I found the poor baste sthraying, and he looks as if he was as hungry as myself.”
Pic. “What are you going to do with him, sir?”
Sol. “Do with him, is it? To bring him with me, to be sure! Do you think I’d lave him here to starve?”
Pic. “Ah! you villain, you are at your old tricks, are you? I know you, though you don’t think it!”
Sol. “And I know you, sir, and the 'boys of Connaught' know you too, and I’d be sorry to do anything that would be displaising to your honour; and, sure, iv you’d only let me, I’d send your sarvent a leg iv him to dhress for your dinner, for by my sowl your honour looks could and angry—hungry I mane.”
Depicted during the Autumn of 1809. All painted in acrylics.
I give you the devils own footpads
“Pray, sir,” said, or rather roared Picton, addressing the soldier, “what have you got there?”
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Sol. “A thieving puckawn, sir.”Pic. “A what?”
Sol. “A goat, sir. In Ireland we call a buck-goat a puckawn. I found the poor baste sthraying, and he looks as if he was as hungry as myself.”
Pic. “What are you going to do with him, sir?”
Sol. “Do with him, is it? To bring him with me, to be sure! Do you think I’d lave him here to starve?”
Pic. “Ah! you villain, you are at your old tricks, are you? I know you, though you don’t think it!”
Sol. “And I know you, sir, and the 'boys of Connaught' know you too, and I’d be sorry to do anything that would be displaising to your honour; and, sure, iv you’d only let me, I’d send your sarvent a leg iv him to dhress for your dinner, for by my sowl your honour looks could and angry—hungry I mane.”