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'I'd give half I'm pothethed of, Thir, and all my prothpecth in life, lisped vehemently plump little Lieutenant Puddock, in one of those stage frenzies to which he was prone, 'to be the firtht Alecthander on the boardth.

"Did you ever hear me complain about having to eat?" "I can't say that I ever did," smiled Harriet. "But you will catch cold out here." "Tho will you. You will catch cold firtht becauthe you have been out here longer than I have. Anything elthe?" "No, except that I am not going to waste my breath giving you advice. When you become cold enough I presume you will go back to bed."

Thquire, thake handth, firtht and latht! Don't be croth with uth poor vagabondth. People mutht be amuthed. They can't be alwayth a learning, nor yet they can't be alwayth a working, they an't made for it. You mutht have uth, Thquire. Do the withe thing and the kind thing too, and make the betht of uth; not the wurtht! 'And I never thought before, said Mr.

"If you had been, they couldn't have lifted you and you wouldn't have fallen in again." "Fat like you? Never! I'd die firtht," replied Tommy. "But I may ath it ith. I'm freething, Mith Elting." "Get up and go ashore. Hazel, will you please see that Grace doesn't sit down on the cold ground?"

"Mith Crampton, would you like to have the firtht turn of going down with them?" "No, thank you," said Miss Crampton almost suavely, and rising with something very like alacrity. Then, remembering that she had not even mentioned what she came for, "I wish to observe," she said, "that I much disapprove of the noise I hear up in Parliament. I desire that it may not occur again.

"I want the garden I had latht year," insisted a decisive voice that preceded the tramp of determined feet over the attic stairs. "Where was it, son? I've forgotten." "In a corner of your vegetable garden. Don't you remember my raditheth were ripe before yourth were? Mother gave me a prithe for the firtht vegetableth out of the garden." "So she did. You beat me to it.

Down by the Docks, the children of Israel creep into any gloomy cribs and entries they can hire, and hang slops there pewter watches, sou'-wester hats, waterproof overalls 'firtht rate articleth, Thjack. Down by the Docks, such dealers exhibiting on a frame a complete nautical suit without the refinement of a waxen visage in the hat, present the imaginary wearer as drooping at the yard-arm, with his seafaring and earthfaring troubles over.

An' they isn't a man in this here fo'c's'le, says he, lookin' around, 'that'll say I'd mind. Not one, says he, with the little devil jumpin' in his eyes. "Then she stopped cryin' for good. "'Go ahead, Liz! says he. 'I ain't afeared. Come on! Give us a kiss! "'Motheth Thooth, says she, 'you're the firtht man ever athked me t' give un a kith! "She kissed un. 'Twas like a pistol-shot.