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A very acceptable present it was, and one which George Stephenson remembered with pride down to his dying day. The Geordie lamp continues in use to the present moment in the Tyneside collieries with excellent effect. For some years more, Mr.
Only that day had he arrived her Geordie a little pallid from long housing and wearied from the long ride, but wonderfully well and happy otherwise, and assured that a few weeks more would see him strong as ever. Connell had met him at Buffalo. Bud was up from New York.
"I ate hardly any breakfast, and I've done everything I know to make myself extra hungry, but I really don't think I can eat straight through, unless I burst my buttons off," whispered Geordie to Will, as he surveyed the bounteous stores before him with a hopeless sigh.
'Well, Geordie, she said, turning once more to her son, 'it's like mither, like father to the twa o' ye. 'Did you know my father? asked Robert, eagerly. Instead of answering him she made another remark to her son. 'He needna be ashamed o' your company, ony gait queer kin' o' a mither 'at I am. 'He never was ashamed of my company, said Shargar, still gloomily.
Round after round of applause greeted the speaker when he had finished, and in response to his appeal to them to organize, a branch of the union was formed, with Geordie Sinclair as its first president. At the request of the meeting Smillie interviewed Black Jock next morning, and as a result Sinclair got started on the following day. Smillie stayed overnight with Geordie.
And all the while Annie Mason- -all the colour vanished from her wholesome face stands with her hands clutching her dress, gazing down at the man, who still examines the herring with a self-conscious awkwardness. "Geordie!" she says. They are all called Geordie in South Shields. "Ay, lass!" he answers, shamefacedly. Annie Mason sits down suddenly opposite to him.
There hadna been time yet for the corp to be laid intil the coffin, though, i' the quaiet o' the mirk, we thoucht, as we sat, we cud hear the tap-tappin' as they cawed the braiss nails intil't, awa' ower in Geordie Lumsden's chop, at the Muir o' Warlock, a twa mile, it wad be.
With two days' cooked rations in their saddle-bags now, with a line of hearty appreciation from Major Berry and renewed instructions to go ahead, with a dozen more men than he had at the start, and the best wishes of his temporary commander, Geordie Graham had pushed on again northeastward down the right bank of the Fork.
'I beg yer lordship's pardon. Caumill! Yer lordship never said ye wanted yer lordship's horse ta'en. I thocht ye micht be gaein' on to The Bothie. Tak' Black Geordie here, Caumill. Come in to the parlour, my lord. 'How d'ye do, Miss Naper? said Lord Rothie, as he entered the room.
Andrew hurried off to the bottom and overtook Robert, sending back others to help, and he ascended the shaft and was off to break the news to Mrs. Sinclair; after which he returned to the pit, determined to get out all that remained of Geordie and the boy John. Matters were now much easier and more comfortable for Geordie Sinclair and his wife.
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