Merry Andrews

Whereupon they left me, and in a little time I was told by the bluff-looking Merry Andrews I was at liberty to depart.

Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842

On coming to myself, I was seated on a stone bench in a large room, something like a guard-room, in the custody of certain fellows dressed like Merry Andrews; they were bluff, good-looking, wholesome fellows, very different from the sallow Italians; they were looking at me attentively, and occasionally talking to each other in a language which sounded very like the cracking of walnuts in the mouth, very different from cooing Italian.

Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842

Whereupon they left me, and in a little time I was told by the bluff-looking Merry Andrews I was at liberty to depart.

Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

On coming to myself, I was seated on a stone bench in a large room, something like a guard-room, in the custody of certain fellows dressed like Merry Andrews; they were bluff, good-looking, wholesome fellows, very different from the sallow Italians; they were looking at me attentively, and occasionally talking to each other in a language which sounded very like the cracking of walnuts in the mouth, very different from cooing Italian.

Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

On coming to myself, I was seated on a stone bench in a large room, something like a guarde room, in the custody of certain fellows dressed like Merry Andrews; they were bluff, good-looking, wholesome fellows, very different from the sallow Italians; they were looking at me attentively, and occasionally talking to each other in a language which sounded very like the cracking of walnuts in the mouth, very different from cooing Italian.

Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

Whereupon they left me, and in a little time I was told by the bluff-looking Merry Andrews I was at liberty to depart.

Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

The breech-loaders of my men swallowed my metallic cartridges much faster than I liked to see; but happily there was a lull in the firing, and we were rushing into the village from the west, the south, the north, through the gates and over the tall palings that surrounded the village, like so many Merry Andrews; and the poor villagers were flying from the enclosure towards the mountains, through the northern gate, pursued by the fleetest runners of our force, and pelted in the back by bullets from breech-loaders and shot-guns.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004