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So they went on till the year 1862, when a disaster befell them that made a considerable change at first for the worse, but for the better in the long-run. Provin' the truth, my lad, of what I was well, no I was goin' to draw a moral here, but I won't! "It was a cyclone that did the business. Cyclones have got a free-an'-easy way of makin' a clean sweep of the work of years in a few hours.
When Frenchy insists on a duel an' Bill gets up in front of him, he says, in that free-an'-easy way of his, 'We mark puppies up in my country by cutting their ears, and that's what I'm going to do to you, for you ain't fit to die, an' blame me if he don't just pop bullets through that fellow's ears like you'd punch holes in a piece of cheese!"
As to giving ourselves airs, you mistake our natural reserve and dislike to obtrude ourselves upon strangers for pride; and in this respect, at least, if in no other, we are better than you we don't spit all over each other's floors and close past each other's noses." "Wall, now, stranger, if you choose to be resarved, and we choose to be free-an'-easy, where's the differ?
Tarquin wore a broad-brimmed straw hat, with a conical crown, and a red silk sash tied round his waist. "Yes, Tarquin," replied Barnes, "we wos engaged in makin' free-an'-easy remarks on you; and Phil Briant there gave us to understand that you wouldn't let us have the bread kid up.
"Bein' free-an'-easy, ma'am, was the last thing in my mind," stammered Captain Cai. "There, didn't I guess? . . . Well, you shall wear your top hat next time, and I'll take back my first impressions if I find 'em wrong." "But, ma'am, the the fact is " "Of course it was in the dusk," continued Mrs Bosenna; "but I certainly thought it suited you.
Hows'ever I's free-an'-easy, an' dat make de pirits fond o' me, which goes a long way, for dere's nuffin' like lub!" Foster heartily agreed with the latter sentiment and added "Well, now, Peter, I will say no more, for as you profess to be fond of me, and as I can truly say the same in regard to you, we may be sure that each will help the other if he gets the chance.
As I always said to my missus, `Maggie, I used to say, `when you find this chronometer fail `Oh! bother you an' your chronometer, she would reply, takin' the wind out o' my sails for my missus has a free-an'-easy way o' doin' that "
But you turn this schooner into a free-an'-easy, equal shares-to-all, go-as-you-please outfit, let 'em git their claws on the gold, an' be on the way home to spend it for Carlsen'll let 'em go that far afore he pulls his play, whatever it is an' discipline will go by the board. "Grog'll be served when they feel like it, they'll start gamblin', some of 'em'll lose all they got.
So they went on till the year 1862, when a disaster befell them that made a considerable change at first for the worse, but for the better in the long-run. Provin' the truth, my lad, of what I was well, no I was goin' to draw a moral here, but I won't! "It was a cyclone that did the business. Cyclones have got a free-an'-easy way of makin' a clean sweep of the work of years in a few hours.
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