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It's better to be called John than to be called Perce!" "Why don't you get married, Lizzie?" Eleanor said. "Never been ast. That's why. I'd jump at the chance if I got it. You down't think I'm 'angin' on 'ere out of love for Aunt. I'm just 'angin' on in 'ope!..." But before Eleanor and Mrs. MacDermott went to Ballyards, they realised that John's sub-editorial work was hard and inconvenient.
We was goin' over the top when a shell busted in front of us. It blinded me for a moment and then when I could see agin gorblimy it must 'a' copped 'im in the stomach an' ripped it open ugh! 'e was rollin' over wi' all 'is guts 'angin' out ugh! yer should 'a' 'eard 'im groan.
Ellen Mary was frightened; she had never seen her child other than deliberate, calm, judicial, in all his movements. In a sudden spasm of motherly love she bent to pick him up, to caress him. "No," said the Wonder, with something that approached disgust in his tone and attitude. "No," he repeated. "What's 'e want 'angin' round 'ere? Send 'im off." He pointed again to the window.
Tilda, yer net's 'alf 'angin' off you don't want yer sweet-'eart to see you all untidy like that, do you? 'Elp 'em, Polly my dear, and be quick about it! H'out with yer sewin', chicks!" Sprung up from their seats the three girls darted to and fro. The telltale spelling and copy-books were flung into the drawer of the chiffonier, and the key was turned on them.
Great quantities of fish are procured at this place, and sold cheap. The trade is principally with the hill-people, in salt, piece-goods, iron, steel, and opium; for which the returns are provisions, timber, and a little gold-dust. Formerly there was a trade carried on with the Padang and other ate angin people, but it is now dropped. The soil is sandy, low, and flat.
"Following me about? Nonsense! Why should a bird do that?" "Well, sir," came the reply. "I dunno, I'm sure, unless 'e's 'angin' 'round you for safety." An Inspiring Model Little Johnnie, having in his possession a couple of bantam hens, which laid very small eggs, suddenly hit on a plan.
"Too late, I'm afraid, Sister," said the stalwart at the head of the stretcher. "'E's died on the way up." "'Emmerage, Sister," supplemented the other, anxious to display his familiarity with the technicalities of her profession. "'E wouldn't take 'is turn to be attended to aboard of us we was in a Destroyer, an' picked 'im up 'angin' on to a spar.
"That'd mean 'angin', an' they ain't been er bad crowd. "No," assented everyone, including the chap who had come to call us. "All the same," he added. "It's got to be up hellum, an' shove her into the nearest bloomin' port." "Yes," said everyone, and then eight bells went, and we cleared out on deck.
"How about the moray?" "'E was 'angin' on," was the reply; "'e wouldn't let go, and by the time they 'ad the diver on board agen, the fish 'ad chewed up the air-tube pretty well. But that wasn't the worst, sir," said the talkative old man, growing garrulous, as he saw the boy look at his watch.
"Well?" Kent questioned, expecting the disclosure. But Cardegee grinned. "Go ahead with your 'angin', you bloomin' old pot- wolloper!" Then, as the sailor had anticipated, the tragedy became a farce. Cardegee being the heavier of the two, Kent, throwing his body backward and down, could not lift him clear of the ground.
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