"Windbags!  I've shaid it before, and I'll shay it again - they are nothing
but shtuffed-up, fornicating, shelf-aggrandizing, horse-buggering peacocks
and popinjays!"

The man's equally drunk companion looked blearily at him over the last of
several bottles of fine wine.  "Huh?"

"Bloody cavalry.  Eshpecially those damned Dragoons.  Shpend all their time
imitating their horses by blowing hot air.  Comes from too many damn' months
on campaign with no company except for their mounts *giggle*.  All Paris can
talk about ish shome pooor Captain who followed the ol' 'carpe diem' motto
and grabbed his chance.  Now he'sh worried he'sh gonna be ostrichized.
Yeah, they're gonna make him bury his head in th' sand.  Pickled.  Inna
jar..."

The man's head slumps, striking the table with a thump in a splash of
spilled burgundy.

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