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But it was a long while before her lodgers got courage enough to come back. Then we went to the house of the Blazers, in 'Cow Bay, and used to lodge there with Yellow Bill. They said Bill was a thief by profession; but I wasn't old enough to be a judge. Little Lizza Rock, the nondescript, as people called her, used to live at the Blazers.
"Of 'us'?" "The people of the new lands the pioneers, if you choose, the modern colonists, the trail blazers." "I wonder." The idea was new. She considered it gravely. "My parents were city folks; I have lived in the city all my life. And yet I think I have the feeling you speak of. Only I can't put it into words either." "If you could you would be the most famous person in the world.
As she went on she began to shine like a star, shootin' on through the azure heavens for all the world like a sky-rocket. That put me on my pluck, and I bust out just like a sky-rocket too. My blazers! If it didn't make my head spin.
Also something about the music made her feel uncomfortable the same dim yet searching discomfort she had when she looked at the young couples in the sun ... the young girls in their shady hats and silk stockings, the young men in their flannels and blazers.
This made him rather warm, but helped his general appearance. "The two Bradleys must dress up, too," said Albert. "I think they ought to act as a guard of honor, don't you? The only things I have are blazers and jerseys; but it doesn't much matter what they wear, as long as they dress alike."
The school caps, with their elaborate symbolism, were his; his the many-tinted bathing-drawers, that showed how far a boy could swim; his the hierarchy of jerseys and blazers. It was he who instituted Bounds, and call, and the two sorts of exercise-paper, and the three sorts of caning, and "The Sawtonian," a bi-terminal magazine. His plump finger was in every pie.
But Lizza was good to me, and used to take care of me, and steal little things for me from old Dan Sullivan, who begged in Broadway, and let Yellow Bill get his money, by getting him tipsy. And I got to liking Lizza, for we both seemed to have no one in the world who cared for us but English. And there was always some trouble between the Blazers and the people at the house of the 'Nine Nations.
Within, matters were somewhat better, for though the furniture was old, and none of it clean, yet an appearance of comfort was evident; and the large grate, blazing with its pile of red-hot turf, the deep-cushioned chairs, the old black mahogany dinner-table, and the soft carpet, albeit deep with dust, were not to be despised on a winter's evening, after a hard day's run with the "Blazers."
"Is that funny?" "All serene, Grimmy," said Wilson, elaborately agreeing with his friend as a mother might with a sick child. "Matter of fact, it is rather fine. Not unlike a Zingari blazer, eh?" "Zingari blazer!" "Exactly like. And that pink on the trees would do for the Westminster shirts." "Blazers and shirts," cried Grim, in disgust. "Oh! get out." "Let's get in, Grimmy, instead.
The King of Oude Is mighty proud, And so were onst the Caysars; But ould Giles Eyre Would make them stare, Av he had them with the Blazers. To the devil I fling ould Runjeet Sing, He's only a prince in a small way, And knows nothing at all of a six-foot wall; Oh, he'd never "do for Galway." CHORUS: With debts, etc. Ye think the Blakes Are no "great shakes;" They're all his blood relations.
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