The rot came, and I thought I should have to list for a sodger.

George Pendle shot that Bosvile sure enough, an' ef y'arsk me, dearie, it was the son—the captain—the sodger.

But I should like to have a somewhat better description of her than that ‘sodger’ up aloft there seems able to give.

True again; and I am as tough a sodger, and may be I mought say, as old a sodger as yourself.