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Maybe there is; who knows? So away I wint, and sure enough I found a row o' men waitin' for their letters; so I crushes for'ard och! but I thought they'd ha' hung me on the spot, and I found it was a rule that `first come first sarved fair play and no favour. They wos all standin' wan behind another in a line half-a-mile long av it wos a fut, as patient as could be; some readin' the noosepapers, and some drinkin' coffee and tay and grog, that wos sowld by men as went up an' down the line the whole mornin'. So away I goes to the end o' the line, an' took my place, detarmined to stand it out; and, in three minutes, I had a tail of a dozen men behind me. `Faix, Larry, says I, `it's the first time ye iver comminced at the end of a thing in order to git to the beginnin'.
'I'm detarmined on it, and I'll set off immediantly, and be a knight arriant. 'A what? says she. 'A knight arriant, woman. 'Lord, be good to me, what's that? says she. 'A knight arriant is a rale gintleman, says he; 'going round the world for sport, with a swoord by his side, takin' whatever he plazes for himself; and that's a knight arriant, says he.
'But if ye had a bad mouth I'd go into coort an' wriggle out iv th' partnership because ye'ar a cantankerous old villain that no wan cud get on with, he says. 'If people knew they cudden't get away fr'm each other they'd settle down to life, just as I detarmined to like coal smoke whin I found th' collection wasn't big enough to put a new chimbley in th' parish house.
I detarmined then, as soon as we shed git alongside, to put out for it, an' leave the painter to continue his voyage 'ithout me. "When I fust sighted the island I seed somethin' that; hed tuk for bushes. But thur wan't no bushes on the mound that I knowd. "Howsomdever, when we got a leetle closter, I diskivered that the bushes wur beests.
Havin notist a gineral desire on the part of young men who are into the crisis to wear eppylits, I detarmined to have my company composed excloosviely of offissers, everybody to rank as Brigadeer-Ginral. The follerin was among the varis questions which I put to recroots: Do you know a masked battery from a hunk of gingerbread? Do you know a eppylit from a piece of chalk?
But what do you think Masther Harry said afther he had seen all this? 'Barney, said he, 'I'm detarmined to spend a night in the haunted house before I'm much ouldher; only keep that to yourself, and don't make a blowing horn of it through the parish. And what he said to me, I say to you never breathe a syllable of it to man or mortal. It'll be worse for you if you do.
I'll find him in the bottom o' a Californey gold mine, or wherever he may try to hide hisself; an', by the etarnal! I'll wipe out the score both the old un and the new un in the skunk's blood, or I'll never set fut agin in the state o' Tennessee. I've made up my mind to it." "You are determined to follow him?" "Firmly detarmined!" "Enough! Our roads lie together!"
"Dou yo think I'm wanting your body while another man has your heart? That's a game I've played about long enough, I'm thinking. Good? Not me, missis." His eyes, which had been fixed on the fire, wandered to his wife, and then his lips quivered and his manner changed. "I'm hard I'll cut it short. Fact is, I've detarmined to do something, but I've a question to ask first.
"At it ag'in, air ye, Marty?" drawled a voice from the doorway. "If repetition of what ye want makes detarmination, Mart, then you air the most detarmined man since Lot's wife and she was a woman, er-haw! haw! haw!" "Come in, Walky," said Uncle Jason, greeting the broad and ruddy face of his neighbor with a brisk nod. "Set up and have a bite," was Aunt 'Mira's hospitable addition. "No, no!
So says I to Grigson, my old mate as was, who's in charge here now, and we detarmined as how we'd make a kind of show like to welcome of him home."
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