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You have your wages in your hand on a Saturday night, and can deal at any shop you please." The man he wore a battered old straw hat on his head, which looked as dirty as his face raised his eyes with an air of surprise at Lionel. "What wages, sir? We don't get ours." "Not get your wages?" repeated Lionel. "No, sir; not on a Saturday night. That's just it it's where the new shoe's a-pinching.
"Hand, shipmate," says Penfeather softly, "would it be a right hand ha?" "It was!" I nodded. "The mark of a great right hand." "Aye, aye!" says Adam, pinching his chin. "A right hand, Martin. And where was the mark, d'ye say?" "Beneath my bed." "Bed, Martin your bed!" Here he caught his breath and rose up and stood looking down at me betwixt narrowed lids and a-pinching at his square chin.
Hatcher, we had better go now, and then he spoke something I couldn't make out, and all the animals stood still; I slid off, and the little hell-cats, a-pinching my ears and pulling my beard, went off squealing.
Then education began; the scholars were all repeating their lessons, talking to one another aloud and quarrelling. "Please, sir, Josh Blake's a-pinching me." "Please, sir, Hugh Boyle is a-scroodgin." "Please, sir, Nancy Toomey is making faces at me." It was a pandemonium of little devils, to be changed, if possible, into little angels.
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