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It wasn't the fust time they'd been rude to 'im, but as a rule he'd 'ad to put up with it. He sat and listened while Ginger swore 'imself faint. "That'll do," he ses, at last; "another word and I shall put the bedclothes over your 'ead. Afore I do anything more I want to know wot it's all about."
She turned round and a'most ran up the road, with Ted follering 'er and begging of 'er not to be so hasty, and afore they parted she told 'im that 'er name was. Emma White, and promised to meet 'im there the next night at seven. O' course Mr. Charlie Brice turned up alongside o' Ted the next night, and at fust Emma said she was going straight off 'ome agin.
"Shall I come in and 'elp you get 'im to bed?" ses Dicky Weed, 'arf crying. "No, thank you, Mr. Weed," ses Mrs. Pretty. "It's very kind of you to offer, but 'e wouldn't like any hands but mine to touch 'im. I'll send in and let you know 'ow he is fust thing in the morning." "Try and get 'old of the coat, Dicky," ses Bill Chambers, in a whisper. "Offer to mend it for 'im. It's sure to want it."
He takes boarders sometimes." But Lowry's did not attract us. An ordinary country-tavern, where stage-passengers took supper, was not what we came so far to find. "Do you know where this house o' Dutton's is?" said the driver, to the man who had once taken either dinner or supper there. "Oh yes! I'd know the house well enough, if I saw it. It's the fust house this side o' Lowry's."
He was a man as got 'imself very much liked at fust, especially by the old ladies, owing to his being so perlite to them, that they used to 'old 'im up for an example to the other men, and say wot nice, pretty ways he 'ad.
"You don't look like you was guilty. And that there rooster wasn't sportin' red hair the last time I seen him. Did you eat him fust and then swaller a rabbit to cover his tracks? I reckon not. You're some dog but you ain't got boiler-room for a full-size Rhode Island Red and a rabbit and two quarts of bread-and-milk. It ain't reas'nable. I got to investigate." The dog seemed to understand.
"What are you going to do now?" he asked when they had finished. "Find a crossin', fust thing," answered Bib. "Well, good luck to you," said the man. But Bob did not find it very easy work. It had been a dry season, and the crossings were not muddy, so that there was very little to do.
Hit's fist an' skull, tooth an' nail, or anything else ye likes, but fust I'm goin' ter put this hyar gun of mine in a place whar ye kain't git at hit, an' then one of us is goin' ter fling t'other one offen thet rock-clift whar she draps down them two hundred feet. Does ye like thet play, Bas?"
Sevral hily respectyble gentlemen, and sum talentid females tell us so, & fur argyment's sake I mite be injooced to grant it, tho' I don't beleeve it myself. But the Afrikan isn't our sister & our wife & our uncle. He isn't sevral of our brothers & all our fust wife's relashuns. He isn't our grandfather, and our grate grandfather, and our Aunt in the country.
'But thou'lt get better o' that, said Dan. Harold smiled sheepishly. 'I don't know what you're driving at, uncle, said he. 'Yes, thou dost, lad. Thou'st been and quarrelled wi' Maud. And I say thou'rt a dashed foo'! 'As a matter of fact Harold stammered. 'And ye've never quarrelled afore. This is th' fust time. And so thou'st under th' impression that th' world's come to an end.
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