The paymaster has
been busy. The boys are very bitter against the sutler, realizing, for the
first time, that "sutler's chips" cost money, and that they have wasted
on jimcracks too much of their hard earnings. Conway has taken a solemn Irish
oath that the sutler shall never get another cent of him. But these are like
the half repentant, but resultless, mutterings of the confirmed drunkard. The
"new leaf" proposed to be turned over is never turned.
SOURCE: John
Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 82
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