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I managed not to laugh, and old Isaac added, "There's a many in this village, sir, would have been glad to have taken the liberty of expressing themselves to the Colonel, and a depitation did get as far as your father's gates one night, but they turned bashful and come home again.
We discovered this in the form of a depitation of chiefs and elders, who give us warning it had to stop ker-plunk! They said they wouldn't allow their graveyard torn up, and altogether acted very ugly and insulting. Tom and I had to sing small and put in a holiday neither of us wanted, for the Kanakas had the whip hand of us, and I never saw them so roused.
"Dost think," Bill suggested after another long pause, "that if we got up a sort of depitation Luke Marner and four or five other steady chaps as knows him; yes, and Polly Powlett, she could do the talking to go to her and tell her what a thundering dad un he is dost think it would do any good?"
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