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"I s'pose she'll make her husband buy her chocolates instead." "Most likely. Flo's mighty fond of choc'lates. She'd eat 'em all the time if she could git 'em. She's allus beggin' me to bring her a box every time we come from the city." "She's just like all girls; they like sweet things. That's the reason, I guess, they like me. I'm always sweet with the girls. It pays. Hand me that grip, will yon?
Anyhow, not long after that Edwin found me out an' you know how he has persecuted me, though you little thought he was your own brother when you were beggin' of me not to kill him no more did you guess that I was as little anxious to kill him as you were, though I did pretend I'd have to do it now an' then in self-defence.
"Well," sez Josiah, "I may as well tell you, you would probably hear on't, Ernest White writ me some time ago, and sent me a long petition signed by most all the ministers and leadin' men and wimmen, beggin' me to stop Bardeen." "Well, what did you tell him, Josiah Allen?" "I told him, Samantha, I would consider it." "And," sez I, "have you been all this time, months and months, a considerin'?"
That's pretty big odds against eleven." "Beggin' your pardon, sir," said Barker, who was the oldest man of the crew, "but there's some of our mates over there that wouldn't never fight on the side of that Bug-eye meanin' no disrespect to the mate, sir. Whitlock wouldn't for one, nor Gunther, nor Trent. I'd lay to that, sir." "No, sir," put in Thompson; "an' Ashley wouldn't neither.
"Beggin' your pardon, miss," he said, with a considerable accession of civility, "but it's as much as my place is worth to allow a trespasser here on Far End." Sara nodded. "You're perfectly right to obey orders," she said, and bending her steps towards the public road from which she had strayed to listen to the unseen musician, she made her way homewards.
"See hyar, Miss Lenore, I reckon you care a heap fer young Dorn beggin' your pardon?" queried Jake. "Care for him!... Jake, I love him." "Then take a hunch from me an' keep him home with you to-night." "Does father want Kurt Dorn to go wherever he's going?" "Wal, I should smile! Your dad likes the way Dorn handles I.W.W.'s," replied Jake, significantly. "Vigilantes!" whispered Lenore.
Would ye call a man a beggar for takin' a ration or a bitter 'baccy from a station store? Why, doesn't every traveller do the same? An', for that matter, can't a man always put in a day's work, gettin' firewood or what not, if he's a mind to? Ye needn't fear Ted Reilly'll ever come to beggin'! In my eager anxiety to placate my only friend I almost accepted his offer. But not quite.
"No, you didn't, sir, beggin' your parding; you says something about could I steer and eat too, and I says no, you says no, it was I says; well, it was one or t'other of us, I can't quite 'member which says, `put it on the binnacle, and it was put there, and I ate it, and it was very good." "Oh!"
"It is not in these seas." "O, and that's all you know about it," says Barny. "You're a small craft to be so far at sea. I suppose you have provisions on board?" "To be sure we have; throth if we hadn't, this id be a bad place to go a beggin'." "What have you eatable?" "The finest o' scalpeens." "What are scalpeens?"
The old sailor's eyes glistened with gratitude. "Well, who'd ha' thought it. You didn't think I was beggin' for it, sir, surely?" "You see I had it for you in my pocket." "Well, that IS good o' you, sir!" "Why, Rogers, that'll last you a month!" exclaimed his wife, looking nearly as pleased as himself. "Six weeks at least, wife," he answered.
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