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"I found a big hummock an' sheltered under it, standun on my feet, wi' nawthun to do but think, an' think, an' pray to God; an' so I doned. I could n' help feelun to God then, surely. Nawthun to do, an' no place to go, tull snow cleared away; but jes' drift wi' the great Ice down from the Nothe, away down over the say, a sixty mile a day, mubbe.
So then it comed night; an' I thowt I should n' go to bed, an' I may forget my prayers, an' so I'd, mubbe, best say 'em right away; an' so I doned: 'Lighten our darkness, and others we was oosed to say; an' it comed into my mind, the Lard said to Saint Peter, 'Why did n' 'ee have faith? when there was nawthun on the water for un to go on; an' I had ice under foot, 't was but frozen water, but 't was frozen, an' I thanked Un.
The mother did cry like a Christen, in a manner, an' the big tears 'ould run down, an' they 'ould both be so brave for the poor whelp that 'ould cuddle up an' cry; an' the mother looked this way an' that way, wi' big, pooty, black eyes, to see what was the manun of it, when they'd never doned any harm in God's world that 'E made, an' would n', even ef you killed 'em: on'y the poor mother baste ketched my gaff, that I was goun to strike wi', betwixt her teeth, an' I could n' get it away.
'T was n' like fishun! There the schooner was, tearun through all, an' we runnun for dear life. I falled among the slob, and got out agen. 'T was another man pushun agen me doned it. I could n' 'elp myself from goun in, an' when I got out I was astarn of all, an' there was the schooner carryun on, right through to clear water!
Merrill was just driving up to the house when they got back home and he stared in amazement when he saw Mary Jane. "What have they done to your dress and your hair ribbon?" he asked. "They didn't do anything but just dry it," explained Mary Jane. "I doned it myself.
"Oh, Tommy," cried Elspeth, worshipping him, "I couldn't have doned that, I couldn't!" She was barely six, and easily taken in, but she would save him from himself if she could. What to do with her ladyship's threepence? Tommy finally decided to drop it into the charity-box that had once contained his penny.
I hadn't been home one hours, when he went out and cut a stick, and used it up on me, and he doned the same yesterday." Jack was about to break forth into vigorous language, when his mother anticipated him. Her voice was slightly tremulous, for, despite her enforced calmness, she could not altogether restrain her feelings.
At the moment he stepped from behind the tree which had sheltered him, Otto strode toward him, his broad face still broader on account of his beaming pleasure. "Dot vos me," he said, triumphantly. "Otto doned it." "Did what?" "Scared 'ern so dot they forgits him nefer." "You did well, beyond question. I cannot see how I would have saved myself if you hadn't come as you did.
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