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There's Waller, now, as 'll tell ye that when he `can't help it he guesses he'll jist grin an' bear it. And there's an old Irish trapper that's bin in the mountains nigh forty years now, and who's alive at this day if he bean't dead that used to say to himself when ill luck came upon him, `Now, Terence, be aisy, boy; an' av ye can't be aisy, be as aisy as ye can. So you see, Mr Bertram, we have got a few sparks of wisdom in these diggins."
It was not a pleasant laugh to hear. "Listen," he said. "You bin a long time out West. You bin in the mountains a good while. Listen." There was silence. Sinnet listened intently. He heard the faint drip, drip, drip of water, and looked steadily at the back wall of the room. "There rock?" he said, and jerked his head towards the sound.
Half way between the mouth of the Malagarazi and that of the Liuche we saw a camp on shore that of Mohammed bin Gharib, a Msawahili, who figured often in Livingstone's verbal narrative to me of his adventures and travels as one of the kindest and best of the Moslems in Central Africa.
Sheikh Esau's representative at Manamah his prime minister or viceroy, we should call him, though he is usually known there by the humble-sounding title of the 'bazaar master, by name Seid bin Omar, is a very stout and nearly black individual, with a European cast of countenance.
Although they do seem small, compared with oars, I find they're quite big enough to do the work, and although I've bin trained from a youngster to handle the oar, an' go like a crab with my back the way I'm pullin', it do seem more sensible-like to sit wi' one's face to the front and drive ahead; anyhow, it's more comfortable and satisfactory."
Hows'ever, as I wos sayin', I've bin a'most all over the world I've smoked wi' the Turks, an' hobnobbled with John Chinaman, an' scrambled through the jungles of the Indies, an' gone aloft the Himalayas " "What, have you seen the Himalayas?" asked Jeffson, with a doubtful look. "How could I be among 'em without seein' of 'em?" replied Joe.
You see we got so damaged in a gale that came on to blow the wery next day that we've bin forced to run here for repairs. Skipper Lockley's away up at this here minit to see his wife leastwise, he's waitin' outside till one o' the parsons goes and breaks the noos to her.
When I inquired into the details of the attack, and the manner of the death of these Arabs, I was told that after the first firing which warned the inhabitants of Tabora that the enemy was upon them, Khamis bin Abdullah and some of the principal Arabs who happened to be with him had ascended to the roof of his tembe, and with his spyglass he had looked towards the direction of the firing.
And she's bin bedridden these twelve year; but she can learn anybody about the Bible; she knows tex's by thousands; there hain't no one can puzzle Jenny over the Bible. 'Is she very ill? asked Betty. 'She's just bedridden with rheumatics, that's all; but 'tis quite enough; and I was calkilatin' only t'other day that I'll have to be diggin' her grave afore Christmas.
"You know, Bob, that a good while ago our Matty disappeared. I saw that the dear child was dyin' for want o' food an' warmth an' fresh air, so I thinks to myself, `why shouldn't I put 'er out to board wi' rich people for nothink?" "A wery correct notion, an' cleverer than I gave you credit for. I'm glad to ear it too, for I feared sometimes that you'd bin an' done it." "Oh!
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