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The cowboy groaned in sympathy. "I'd like to git him by the neck and ha-ammer him " he brought his hand down on a chair with a noise like a pistol-shot "hammer that there Dutchman until he couldn't tell himself from a dead coyote!" "I'd bate 'im until he " "I'd show him some things " And then together they raised a yearning, fanatic cry "Oh-o-oh! if we only could " "Yes!" "Yes!" "And then I'd "

Spence Bate of Plymouth is the greatest living authority on crustaceans, such as the lobsters, shrimps, sea-fleas, and hermit crabs; and to him Edward sent all the queer crawling things of that description that he found in his original sea-traps. Mr.

The Chinese, meantime, were keeping up a hot fire on their approaching assailants from their walls. It was necessary to ascertain the best spot for placing the scaling-ladders. Captain Bate volunteered to go, and Captain Naun, of the Engineers, accompanied him. Captain Bate had run across an open space, and was looking down into the ditch, when a shot struck him. He fell.

The woman covered her face with her rough, red hands and moaned like a wounded thing. "I bain't holdin' it agin' ye," continued the skipper. "I fight wid men, not women an' childern. I fit Jack Quinn fair an' bate him fair. Let it be! If ye wants for food, Polly whenever ye wants for food an' clothin' send the word to me. I bes skipper in this harbor aye, an' more nor skipper."

I would go on theayter with him. I would schmier him tenspots when he's got the bid already, and I would go bate on hands which even a rotten player like you couldn't lose, Mawruss. But before I would got to sit through such another evening like last night, Mawruss, Felix Geigermann should never buy from us again a dollar's worth more goods. That's all I got to say." "Why, what was the matter?"

"Yes, because the sound of the bell was always accompanied by a vision of a wet welt hanging over the edge of the tub!" Jamie laughed and became reminiscent. "D'ye mind what ye said wan time whin I bate ye wi' th' stirrup?" "No, but I used to think a good deal more than I said."

Miss Anty Lynch has come to me for protection; and, by the Blessed Virgin, she shall have it, as long as my name's Mary Kelly, and I ain't like to change it; so that's the long and short of it, Barry Lynch. So you may go and get dhrunk agin as soon as you plaze, and bate and bang Terry Rooney, or Judy Smith; only I think either on 'em's more than a match for you."

"You lie, I say, your faction never was able to fight ours; didn't we lick all your dirty breed in Builagh-battha fair?" "Silence there." "Will you meet us on Sathurday, and we'll fight it out clane!" "Ha-ha-ha! Tim, but you got a big fright, any how: whist, ma bouchal, sure I was only jokin' you; and sorry I'd be to bate your father's son, Tim. Come over, and sit beside myself at the fire here.

"Never man spake like this Man," they said, as they spread their garments in the path by which the preacher came up to Mount Zion. He revealed God; He rebuked sin; He poured His denunciations upon the age; He tore off the mask from the face of hypocrisy; not one jot or tittle of truth did He bate for the sake of applause, yet all Judea went out to Him, and all the regions beyond Jordan.

Now, just say Mrs. Mary ay, that'll do Mrs. Mary, it's may be surprised you'll be to be reading a letter from your humble servant, sitting on the top of the Alps, arrah, may be it's not the Alps; but sure she'll never know, fornent the whole French army, with Bony himself and all his jinnerals God be between us and harm ready to murther every mother's son of us, av they were able, Molly darlin'; but, with the blessing of Providence, and Lord Wellington and Mister Charles, we'll bate them yet, as we bate them afore.