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While these events were enacting on the shore, Dominick, Otto, the doctor, and Joe Binney were seated near the summit of the highest peak, enjoying a cold breakfast. It was their first visit to that particular peak, which had a slight hollow or basin of perhaps fifty feet diameter in the centre.
"What a day we have had, to be sure!" said Dominick as they walked along; "and I'm as hungry as a kangaroo." Without noticing the unreasonableness of supposing that long-legged creature to be the hungriest of animals, Otto declared that he was in the same condition, "if not more so."
"Well," said Mother Mayberry as she hurried around the corner of the house with the depleted and milk-hungry Martin Luther trailing at her skirts, "did you make out to manage 'em? Why, ain't that fine; every one in and settled and Fuss-and-Feathers in that end coop where I have been wanting her to be for a week, seeing Dominick have got so many more chickens and needs that larger barrel.
Therefore Dominick, its local boss, was absolute. At the last county election, four years before the time of which I am writing, there had been a spasmodic attempt to oust him. He had grown so insolent, and had put his prices for political and political-commercial "favors" to our leading citizens so high, that the "best element" in our party reluctantly broke from its allegiance.
The boy was prettily attired in a military costume, and wore a toy sword at his side and a gay feather in his cap. He was followed by a brother smaller and much less jaunty. "What might your name be, now, bub? By crackey, you've come out in full blossom, haven't you, like a red-bud bush? What do you say your name is?" "Dominick." "Dominick, hey?
I remimber, Vara, saying to you that day I don't know whether you remimber it or not but I remimber sayin' to you, that if I lived a thousand years, I could never feel sich happiness as I did when I first pressed you to my heart as my own wife." "Well, but we want to hear what happened, Dominick, achora." "Do you remimber the words, Vara?" "Och! I do, avourneen.
And I feel relieved and grateful when my judges, eager to "serve the party," anticipate me by sending me a reassuring hint. I did not let Buck see into my mind. "Nonsense!" I pooh-poohed; "I've no cause to complain of lack of business: but even if I had, I'd not blame Dominick or any one else but myself." Then I gave him a straight but good-humored look.
"But they do really mean it," returned Otto; "and, by the way, if you become a queen won't that necessarily make me and Dom princes?" As Dominick entered the hut at that moment he joined in the laugh which this question created, and corroborated his brother's statement. In this cheerful frame of mind the new Royal Family sat down to dinner.
Didn't Robinson Crusoe make rafts?" said Otto; "at least if he didn't, somebody else did, and anyhow we can." "Come, let us continue our walk," said Dominick. "You don't fully appreciate the loss of our boat Otto.
Cassidy shrank away with a furtive glance of envy and hate at me, whom Dominick treated with peculiar consideration, I think it was because I was the only man of education and of any pretensions to "family" in official position in his machine. He used to like to class himself and me together as "us gentlemen," in contrast to "them muckers," meaning my colleagues.
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