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He's a thousand mile off, says she, 'in the Indies, and the family heerd on him a week agoo. 'I did see him, says I. 'Goo along about your business, says she, 'and light the copper. It were Mr. Cuthbert 'e saw, got up by-times to shoot rooks. Lucky enough, says she, 'that Mr. Melcombe be away." "Why was it lucky?" "Because they'd both set their eyes on the same face they had.
"Ay, sir, we all knowed it then, sure enough; Madam seemed to know't from the first. When they told her I'n seen Mr. Melcombe, she fell in a grete faint, and wrung her hands, and went in another faint, and cried out he were dead; but the sperit never walked any more, folks said it came for a token to I, 'her did ought to look for death by-times, said they." "That's all, is it?"
I therefore step over at by-times, and of by-times I have enough. Piozzi Letters, i. 267. See ante, ii. 52. George Garrick. See Murphy's Johnson, p. 141. See ante, March 26, 1776, and post, Sept. 21, 1777. 'While Lord Bathurst held the Great Seal, an attempt was in vain made to corrupt him by a secret offer to Lady Bathurst of three thousand guineas for the living of St. George's, Hanover Square.
And I must have wood and water galore to make meat for a hundred men. Stir thyself!" "I was thinking, Priscilla why not stuff the turkeys with beechnuts? There is store of them up at our cottage." "How came they there? Doth our doughty Captain go birds-nesting and nutting in his by-times?"
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