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"'Pears to me you must be failin' if you disremembers 'en: son of old Sal Trudgeon, that used to keep the jumble-shop 'cross the water: him that stole our eggs back-along, when father was livin'." "I remember." "I thought you must. Why, you gave evidence, to be sure. Be dashed! now I come to mind, if you wasn' the first to wake the house an' say you heard a man hollerin' out down 'pon the mud."
The other did not take Joe's hand; he looked up vaguely, with an open mouth and no recognition in his expression; but Noy as yet failed to note how insanity had robbed the great face of its power, had stamped out the strength of it, had left it a mindless vague of limp features. "Who be you then?" asked Mr. Tregenza. "Why, blamed if you abbun forgot me! I be Joe Joe Noy comed back-along at last.
I should take Time by the forelock if I was you, an' see if you can find a maiden as'll suit un while you go back-along through the village." "Awnly, as 'tis better for the man to number more years than the wummon," added Billy, "it might be wise to bide a week or two, so's he shall have a bit start of his lady." "Now, you'm fulin me!
The Maister Grimbals, as will be related to the family presently, be comin' to see the custom, an' Miller wants every man to step back-along arterwards an' have a drop o' the best, 'cordin' to his usual gracious gudeness. Now, Lezzard, me an' you'll lead the way." Mr.
Luck has a broad back, my son, but be careful how you dance 'pon it." "Where does she come from?" I asked. "Mediterranean; that's all I know. Four months and more she must ha' took on this trip. Iss; sailed out o' Falmouth back-along in the tail-end o' February, and her cargo muskets and other combustibles." "Muskets?"
'Th' applause of listening Senates to command. "I divine your ambition. Captain Hocken, and I honour it," "So long as you don't mistake me," urged Cai nervously. "It don't go beyond a seat on the School Board at present. . . . But there was a hint dropped that you used, back-along, to give lessons in I forget the word." "Elocution," Mr Benny supplied it.
"You'll soon get awver that," declared Uncle Thomas. "I'll send the trap home with 'e, an' you can look out the frippery; an' you might send a nice split bake back-along with it, if you've got the likes of sich a thing gwaine beggin' to be ate." Presently Mrs. Tregenza drove away and Joan went to her room to think.
Annie and Parker applauded his unexpected steps, and the children began to shriek in delight. "Now we has it!" exclaimed Sam, removing the instrument from between his lips, and panting from his exertions. "Now we skates down de floor. Now, turn again and back-along. I's a-comin', child'en I's a-comin'. See me dance Jim Crow! Here I comes and dere I goes! Now, de pigeon-wing "
"He stood in the door-yard blowin' like Bedlam. I guess you 're late to supper." "I'll be home in a few minutes," said Patty, "I got delayed and am a little behindhand." "I'll turn right round if you'll git in and lemme take you back-along a piece; it'll save you a good five minutes," begged Cephas, abjectly.
For a trip to Plymouth they'd put on sea-boots belike, or grey stockings and clogs: but at home they went bare-legged, and if they wore anything 'pon their heads 'twould be a handkerchief, red or yellow, with a man's hat clapped a-top; coats too, and guernseys like men's, and petticoats a short few inches longer; for I'm telling of that back-along time when we fought Boney and while seafaring men still wore petticoats in these parts at any rate.
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