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'Why, says you, 'for settin' a man out i' this half-an'-half mode for the folks to laugh at. Give me a collar and a cravat this minute, you says, or else be ashamed o' thyself. Be ayther a man or a mouse. That's the way to talk to 'em, Joseph." "Think so?" asked Joseph, with an air half martial and half doubtful.
My plan was to attack and overpower the guard, free and arm all the slaves, blow up the ship, escape on shore, an' have a pitched battle with the pirate crew. Unfortunately there was a white-livered traitor among us a sort o' half-an'-half slave very likely he was a spy. Anyhow, when he saw what I was about, he slipped over the side and swam quietly ashore.
Come, Butterface, haven't you got a suggestion to make." The negro shook his woolly head. "No," he said, "I's 'orrible stoopid. Nebber could get nuffin' to come out o' my brain sep w'en it's knocked out by accident. You's hard to please, massa. S'pose you mix de two, dis'pintment an' content, an' call 'im Half-an'-half Island."
"Now lookee here," rejoined the sailor earnestly, "it's all wery well for milksops an' nincompoops and landlubbers to go in for half-an'-half work like that, but you're not the man I takes you for if you ain't game for more than that, so I ax you to promise me that you'll sign the pledge right off, as I did, first time you gits the chance."
Taggart climbed down from his pony and stood beside it. "Half-an'-half on the idol," he said. "That's square, ain't it?" He looked at Calumet with the beginning of a bland smile, which instantly faded and turned into a grimace of fear as he found himself looking into the gaping muzzles of Calumet's pistols, which had appeared with magic ease and quickness.
'But 'tis too late to do annything with me. An' I don't care. It may hurt me in th' eyes iv me fellow counthrymen, but look at th' fun I get out iv it. I wudden't thrade th' injanyous wicked people an' th' saints that I see f'r all th' poor, dull, half-an'-half crathers that ye find in th' wurruld, says he. "An' there ye ar-re.
"'No such thing, s'she, milkin' away like mad for fear he'd use force; 'I ain't carried a drop o' milk here. I've drove it, she says. "Timothy groaned. "'Milkin' in the church, he says. "'No, sir, says Amanda, back at him; 'I'm outside on the sod, an' you know it. "An' then my hopes sort o' riz, because I thought I heard Eppleby Holcomb laugh soft sort of a half-an'-half chuckle.
At this moment Reuben Gold came swinging along the road with a green baize bag under his arm. He was on his way to his uncle's house, and, unobserved of Snac, took a place on the causeway to see what might be the reason of this unusual gathering. "Now," said Snac, "I never thought as Lord Barfield 'ud be so mean as to do things in that half-an'-half manner.
She di'n' look like him but they insist' that also come later. Any'ow she's rent' half-an'-half by those grand-mère' of Castanado and Dubroca, at the firzt just to call 'shop'! at back door when a cuztomer come in, and when growing older to make herseff many other way' uzeful. And by consequence she was oft-en playmate with the chil'ren of all that coterie there in Royal Street.
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