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"Why should she be a-comin' in an' a-robbin' us of our pay?" muttered a coarse, red-faced virago, her hair in a frowse about her head, her slatternly dress open at the throat. "Oi'll be one to go an' pull her off the dock and jump on her. What's she a-doin', any-how, puttin' down prices!
Clinton," said the professor, politely. "I suppose you want the vegetables too. Here are the onions, and the rest." "They are not mine, on my honor," said Clinton, very much embarrassed. "Here, my good man, can you make use of these?" The sailor whom he addressed accepted the gift with a grin. "Thank you kindly, sir," he said, "If so be as I ain't a-robbin' you."
You ain't a-robbin' of him, for you never giv him the money, and I tell yer agin as he's the one as ought to lose if he don't look sharp arter people. That's square enough, ain't it?" Joe had a remarkably open mind to reasoning of this description, and, without another word, he took up the bill and was off. Jim also thought it better to return to the foundry. Mr.
House-breakers and highwaymen's bad enough; but a thief as come a-robbin' a garden, where you've been nussin' the things up for years and years ah! there's nothing worse than that." "You've got some old birch brooms, David," cried Tom, without committing himself to the gardener's sentiments. "Birch, sir? Tchah! Birch would only tickle him, even if we could hit him on the bare skin." "Nonsense!
"When I was heah afore, I put up at er tavern whar ther war young women as waited on ther table. I jest had plain food, in course, but when one o' them young women brot me ther bill, she would hand et out in sech er way thet tho' I knowed she war a-robbin' me, I never thot o' pertestin'; rather, she war shor ter git er tip in addition. Talk er high art, them girls war daisies, shor.
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