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Well, poor babby cried without stopping to take breath, fra' that time till we got to Brummagem for the night. My heart ached for th' little thing. It caught wi' its wee mouth at our coat sleeves and at our mouths, when we tried t' comfort it by talking to it. Poor little wench! it wanted its mammy, as were lying cold in th' grave.
It's there she learned 'Pieces of eight, and little wonder; three hundred and fifty thousand of 'em, Hawkins! She was at the boarding of the Viceroy of the Indies out of Goa, she was; and to look at her you would think she was a babby. But you smelt powder didn't you, cap'n?" "Stand by to go about," the parrot would scream.
But she was overruled by acclamation; and the cake was cut by May with much ceremony and rejoicing. I don't think any one had tasted it, when there came another tap at the door, and the same man appeared again, having under his arm a vast brown-paper parcel. "Mr. Tackleton's compliments, and he's sent a few toys for the Babby. They ain't ugly."
"Mike take Babby home," coaxed Mike, lifting the child to his shoulder. Reaching the clearing Mike carried Babs over to the office where he heard how everyone missed the child and, finding that Mike was gone also, they felt that Babs was safe, for doubtless the two were together.
"Th' longest lane will have a turning, and that night came to an end at last; and we were footsore and tired enough, and to my mind the babby were getting weaker and weaker, and it wrung my heart to hear its little wail! I'd ha' given my right hand for one of yesterday's hearty cries. We were wanting our breakfasts, and so were it too, motherless babby!
They said he just comed a wee babby to the coourt a wanderin' with the other childer, with scarce a rag to his back, an' a smile on him like the arch-angel, and some said as how he niver had no father ner mother, but dthrapped sthraight frum the place where de angels live." "But did no one take care of him, or ever try to find out about him?" questioned Michael wistfully. "Foind out, is it? Whist!
"I have seed her kiss her hand to that picture," said the maid. Fancy Mary kissing her hand to me! Oh, the pretty love! Pooh! I was staring at the picture, cogitating what insulting message I could write on it, when I heard the woman's voice again. "I think she has known him since she were a babby," she was saying, "for this here was a present he give her."
"Now, I tell you what it is, I shall just strike you off the ship's books, and you shall just go and cruise by yourself; I've done with you." "Go and tell that to the marines, if you like," said Jack. "I ain't done with you yet, for a jolly long watch. Why, what do you suppose would become of you, you great babby, without me?
"Them as has money to pay is oilers and oilers welcome. Come in, and set you down by the fire, hinney. Well, well, and so you has brought a babby with you! Give it to me, Pat. What do you know, you great hulking feller! about the tending of babbies?" The man gladly relinquished his charge, then pointed backwards with his finger at Flower.
"He is, Mester Dick, and theer's a babby." "Never!" said Dick, laughing, to humour the great fellow, who wiped his eyes and became quite solemn now. "Yes, that he hes, Mester Dick, and you'd nivver guess what he's ca'd him." "Jacob, of course." "Nay, Mester Dick; he's ca'd him Dave."
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