Meanwhile he is whistling, and his batman is making sparks fly out of the buttons, which he cleans with glass-paper and gun-cotton just outside the door.
So I told my batman to get hot water brought there in the mornings.
Then, as time went on, I was able to get a man to take over the duties of a batman, and I finally obtained a chauffeur to run my side-car.
You should have seen me this morning, sitting on the gun-seat while my batman cut my hair.
This is a case where an officer made a private arrangement with his batman to have his private car washed periodically.
Some officers even used to give their pay to their batmen.
If batmen can be made available without difficulty to married officers in quarters we shall certainly do so.
