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Your lil darter, your Joan, be dead drownded in the flood, poor sweet lamb." "You'm wrong, my son. Joan's bin dead these years 'pon years. She was damned afore 'er mother conceived her. Hell-meat in the womb. But the 'Lard is King, you mind.
It's just bubbling up an' up out o' the bowels of the earth, an' an' Minky says I'll have to set up pumps an' things, an' he's goin' to help me. So is Sunny Oak, an' Toby, an' Sandy, an' he sez we'll find the gold sure if we pump the oil. Sez it's there, an' I'll be rich as Rockefeller an' all them millionaires. But I can't seem to see it, if the gold's drownded in that messy, smelly oil.
"Hullo!" came quickly. "We're shut in by the water." "Who's `we'?" "The cutter's midshipman and I." "Wha-a-at! Then there arn't nayther on yer dead and drownded, my lad?" "No-o-o-o!" "Then I say hooray! hooray! But can't you swim out?" "No. We've tried." "Ho!" came back. "Wait a bit." "What for? Can't you get help for us, Tom?" "Ay, ay, my lad," came back. "But jest you wait."
All I know is he was drownded when he was found. Wotever become o' that skiff, Bill?" "And what about Mr. Stanton's son?" Roy asked. "Well, they got his hat an' his coat that he must a' thrown off an' that's all. Th' old man 'ud never look at the launch again.
"But he was drownded in the Evening Star" ses Joe Morgan. Bill Flurry didn't answer 'im. He poured out pretty near a tumbler of whisky and offered it to Mrs. Pearce, but she pushed it away, and, arter looking round in a 'elpless sort of way and shaking his 'ead once or twice, he finished it up 'imself. "It couldn't 'ave been 'im," ses George Hatchard, speaking through 'is handkerchief.
Not so long before he died, his old farther from England came out to live with him; then Snowdon and a son as he had both got drownded going over a river at night. And Ned says as all the money went to the old bloak and to a brother in England, and that's what he herd when he was paid off. The old farther made traks very soon, and they sed he'd gone back to England.
Arthur and the children were felicitously dabbling in sand and sea-water, reducing the frocks to a condition that would have been Sarah's daily distraction, if she had not reconciled herself to it by observing, 'it did her heart good to see the Colonel take to the children, though he was no more to be trusted with them than a sea-mew; and if it was not for Master John, she believed they would all come home some day drownded.
Skeered out of her boots by a triflin' little thunderstorm. Why, I wouldn't give two " "My goodness, Phin Striker," broke in his wife, a new note of alarm in her voice, "I do hope them chickens an' turkeys have got sense enough to get under something in this downpour. If they ain't, the whole kit an' boodle of 'em will be drownded, sure as "
That's what all the other folks said when they dove after the mermaids an' got drownded." "Who?" asked the girl. "I don't know who, but I've heard tell " "You've heard that no one ever saw a mermaid and lived," said Trot. "To tell the tale," he added, nodding. "An' if we dives down like they says, we won't live ourselves."
How d' ye know she has n't fell into the river? Have they fired cannon? They say that busts the gall of drownded folks, and makes the corpse rise. Have they looked in the woods everywhere? Don't believe no wrong of nobody, not till y' must, least of all of them that come o' the same folks, partly, and has lived with yo all their days.
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