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And then she added with a quiver in her voice, "Oh, Bertie, we owe him over one hundred dollars!" The trouble was all out now, and Albert looked gloomy. "I don't think any more of him for coming here to dun us," he answered savagely; "he might have waited until he saw me." "Oh, he was very nice about it," responded Alice, "and begged my pardon for speaking of it.
"A most satisfactory account of yourself," said Will Osten. Thus appealed to, the gratified native began without hesitation, and gave the following account of himself: "Me dun know when me was born " "Faix, it wasn't yesterday," said Larry, interrupting. "No, nor de day before to-morrow nother," retorted Bunco; "but it was in Callyforny, anyhow. Me fadder him wos a Injin "
His comrades carefully put away their intrenching tools, for they were held responsible for them, and then gathered about the fire, clamoring for supper. "Zeke, you lazy loon," cried Nat Atkinson, "how many pipes have you smoked to-day? If you'd smoke less and forage and dun the commissary more, we'd have a little fresh meat once in a hundred years."
On a clear, warm day, late in July, 1780, a handsome coach drawn by four horses crossed King's Ferry and toiled up the Highland road. It carried Benedict Arnold and his wife and their baggage. Jack and Solomon passed and recognized them. "What does that mean, I wonder?" Jack queried. "Dun know," Solomon answered. "I'm scared about it," said the younger scout.
He caught glimpses of dun interiors when forced aside by a panier-laden mule or lumbering camel, and the knowledge was thrust upon him in many ways that his presence in this minor artery of the bazaar was resented by its inhabitants. The few females he met were swathed from head to foot in cotton garments that had once been white.
"Very well," said Jacques, "I can afford to labor under your injustice. You are systematically unjust. But I just dropped in as I passed and, my dear Sir Asinus, there is a visitor coming. I shall intrude " "No; stay! stay!" "Very well." Sir Asinus laid down his violin; and stretching himself, said carelessly: "I shouldn't be surprised if you had brought some dun in your train.
Like the great Turke he walkes in his Seraglio, And doth command which concubine best pleases; When he has done he falls to graze or sleepe, And makes as he had never knowne the Dun, White, Red or Brindled Cowe. Sis. You are unmanly. Cou. Nay, I know you will raile now; I shall like it.
One night the woman sat rocking the cradle, and pondering over the beauty of the child, and praying that the gods might grant him wisdom equal to his beauty. There came a knock at the door, and she got up, not a little wondering, for the nearest neighbours were in the dun of the High- King a mile away; and the night was now late.
"Dun know, sir; I've never heard nor seen nuffin' o' this sort before. In coorse I've heard the missionaries sometimes, a-hollerin' about the streets, but I never worrited myself about them. I say, doctor, that's a rum go about that gal Edie ain't it? I've quite took a fancy to that gal, now, though I ain't seen her. D'ye think she's bin drownded?" "I scarce know what to think.
"Gentlemen generally consider themselves bound to be prompt in paying debts of honor." "I'll pay you as soon as I can. What the devil can you ask more?" exclaimed Fitzgerald. "It seems to me it's not the part of a gentleman to play the dun so continually." They had already drank pretty freely; but Mr.
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