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Perhaps that's the cause of my prejudice, and yet I must say, British or no British, it tante bad, is it? "The meetin' houses 'our side of the water, no matter where, but away up in the back country, how teetotally different they be! bean't they?
"Grin away," shouted Absalom at last, half pleased, half irritated, as he stuck his prong in the ground, and seizing Madge, kissed her before them all. "Thur I bean't ashamed on her!" "Ha! ha! ha! Hoorah!" shouted the men. Madge slipped away towards the rear, blushing scarlet.
The water was already washing around their shoulders; it was with difficulty they could keep their feet. "Let loose, lads!" cried old Bill; "let loose, I say! and swim richt for the shore. Don't think o' me; it bean't certain I shan't weather it yet. I'm the whole av my head taller than the tallest av ye. The tide mayn't full any higher; an' if it don't I'll get safe out after all.
Yes no damn me it must be Ralph Rattlin it bean't, sure and here on his beam ends, a shot in his hull, and one of his spars shattered. I'd sooner have had my grog watered all my life than this should have fallen out." "You have not had your grog watered this evening, Pigtop," said I, rising, assisted by himself and his comrades. "I don't feel much hurt, after all." "True, true, shipmate.
"And you," said I, "you are a fool, a blind, gross, selfish fool, who, in degrading yourself in skulking about the woods and lanes is bringing black shame and sorrow to as sweet a maid as ever " "It don't need you to tell me what she be an' what she bean't," said Black George, in a low, repressed voice.
If there bean't a road made up to every citizen's door, away back to the woods who as like as not has squatted there why he says the House of Assembly have voted all the money to pay great men's salaries, and there's nothin' left for poor settlers, and cross roads. Well, the lawyers come in for their share of cake and ale, too; if they don't catch it, it's a pity.
'It be th' clover and th' thyme, and summat in the air. There bean't no hedges for um to fly up against, and so um carries home a bigger load. 'How many hives have you? I inquired. 'Let's see' he counted them up, touching a finger for each twenty 'There be three score and sixteen; I have a' had six score years ago, but folk don't care for honey now sugar be so cheap.
Allus loved 'im allus will, an' wishful to wed wi' 'im! Why, then," said the Ancient, swallowing two or three times, "so 'ee shall, my sweet so 'ee shall, sure as sure, so come an' kiss me, an' forgive the old man as loves 'ee so." "What do 'ee mean, grandfer?" said Prue between two kisses. "A fine, strappin' chap be Jarge; arter all, Peter, you bean't a patch on Jarge for looks, be you?"
An' you be silent, Peter, an' don't seem to 'ear when spoke to, an' short in your temper oh, you bean't the man you was. I've see it a-comin' on you more an' more. Oh, man, Peter!" he cried, turning his back upon me suddenly, "you as I'd let walk over me you as I'd be cut in pieces for if it be me as done it " "No, no, George it wasn't you of course not.
In wartime a medical examination is soon over and an attestation paper filled up. "There's nothing wrong with you, my man," said the Medical Officer, "except that you're half drunk." "I bean't drunk, mister," protested Williams sleepily. "We'll take you at your word, anyhow," said the doctor. "You're too good a man physically to lose for the Army."
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