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In one funny hand-made skiff the men were using boards and even pans. They scarcely paused to cheer the Mary Ann as she triumphantly glided past, and her passengers yelled: "Bye-bye!" "See you later!" "We're bound for the mines. Where are you going?" "Want a tow?" And so forth, and so forth.
"Well, I shall walk down faster than you bye-bye, old fellow. Look in at my place to-morrow and let us see whether we can arrange to do anything more in opposition to His High Mightiness Superintendent and Provost Marshal Kennedy," said Harding, moving away. "Look! look! over there!" said Leslie, just as his friend was leaving him. "There is a piece of infernal impudence!"
Standing on the last rung of the little ladder before going into the car, I heard him say to another sailor: "She's over yonder. Bye-bye for the present." His cap came off as he looked in the direction of the great deep water where lay the hazy forms of ships. Others looked, but said nothing about the sailor doffing his cap to his grey-steel sweetheart who had weathered the fight against odds.
Nen he lie down, an' play once more his ancestors an' Gaw: 'You he'p me oleleddy; I kip plomise. Nou he'p me somma maw I fine who mudder. Nen go slip. "Bye-bye was dleam 'bout gleen moudens, gleen wadder. Hear' spi'its say, 'I wi' assist you. Ole dissa vay good sign. Suddinity was wek up from his slip, and shaw oneddy stand befaw him ole in dark. She say: 'My son come home in vay good humours.
"Bye-bye!" he said in a loud voice. "See you again soon. Good luck to you!" Arabian held out his hand. "Good-bye." Miss Van Tuyn nodded without speaking. Garstin shut the door noisily. They walked down Glebe Place in silence. When they got to the corner Arabian said: "Are you in a hurry to-day?" "No, not specially." "Shall we take a little walk? It is not very late." "A walk? Where to?"
First it lifted the seat of the boy and the girl, then Cap'n Bill's seat, and finally the lunch basket. "Fly high! Mind your eye! Don't cry! Bye-bye!" shouted the parrot from the Pink Witch's shoulder. Trot leaned over and waved her hand.
At this time two men were going up, in cloth caps on the sides of their heads; one in a blue, the other in a red blouse, with the skirts outside, under the unbuttoned, wide open jackets evidently, Simeon's comrades in the profession. "What?" one of them called out gaily from below, addressing Simeon, "Is it bye-bye for Roly-Poly?" "Yes, it must be the finish," answered Simeon.
He's got to take 'em sooner or later, and better sooner than later, for the sooner he takes 'em the quicker he'll learn. Bye-bye! I know you think I'm a semi-civilised Colonial. I ain't; I'm giving you some wisdom gained from experience. You can't swim by hanging on to a root, you bet!" Dunn listened in silence, then replied slowly, "I say, old chap, there's something in that.
"Nothing will happen to him ... He'll only snooze for a while ... Oh, Tamara!" exclaimed he in a passionate whisper; and even suddenly stretched himself hard from an unbearable emotion, so that his joints cracked. "Finish it, for God's sake, as soon as possible! ... Let's do the trick and bye-bye! Wherever you want to go to, sweet-heart!
The child's funny little perversions of speech are really genuine attempts to say the right word, and we simply cause trouble and hamper development if we give back to the seeking mind its own blunders again. When a child wants to indicate milk, it wants to say milk, and not "mooka" or "mik," and when it wants to indicate bed, the needed word is not "bedder" or "bye-bye," but "bed."
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