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'Now, said Philpot, assuming what he meant to be the manner of a school teacher addressing children, 'I wants you hall to make a speshall heffort and get 'ere very early in the mornin' say about four o'clock and them wot doos the most work tomorrer, will get a prize on Saturday. 'What'll it be, the sack? inquired Harlow.
"Come, you yaller-cheeked chiefs; you's die if you no make a heffort. Come on deck, breeve de fresh air. Git up a happetite. Go in for salt pork, plum duff, and lop-scouse, an' you'll git well 'fore you kin say Jack Rubinson." Tomeo and Buttchee looked up at the jovial negro and smiled imbecile smiles they were.
"You couldn't eat another bite if you was to try, could you?" "Vell, sir," said Bob, with a spice of the `old country' insolence strong upon him, "there's no sayin' what might be accomplished with a heffort, but the consikences, you know, might be serious." The farmer received this with a thunderous guffaw, and, bidding the boys follow him, went out.
"You see, Mister Archie, sir," Peter had insisted, "we must do something. You are getting well on your legs now, and if we don't make a heffort we may be kept here for months. You are my officer, and I take my orders from you, but I do beg and pray, sir, as you will let me have a try. I can get out easy enough, and I can get in again. An hour or two would do it."
Doss, looking distressed; "it shakes you to bits." "I've got a little more cold, I fancy; but I'll be all right in a day or two." "You're not looking the thing I saw you from the front to-night and well, I guess it was a bit of a heffort to sing at all, eh?" Bella turned quickly and looked sharply into Mr. Doss's face. "If you have got anything disagreeable to say, don't be afraid, out with it.
This made me look at the nature of things, miss, and find it on my conscience to be after every body." "Yes, Stixon, yes! Now do go on. You must always have been, not only after, but a very long way after, every body." "Miss Erma, if you throw me out, every word goes promiscuous. In a heffort of the mind like this it is every word, or no word.
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