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Best thing goin' for folks with icicles," remarked the captain, waving the iron spoon he had used to stir the contents of the saucepan. "Yes, sir, thank you. But don't you ask a blessing?" "Hey?" "A blessing, you know. Saying that you're thankful for the food now set before us." "Hum! Why, to tell you the truth I've kind of neglected that, I'm afraid.
It was hardly necessary for him to say, in this community, that he was more at home among higher walks of Art. "Are you a sign painter, Mr. Patching?" asked the coroner. "No, sir; I am not," said Patching, with dignified contempt. "Perhaps you're a carriage painter, then? Them's the fellers for picturin'. The woman and flowers on the Bully Boys' hose carriage wos well done. Hey, Jack?"
"Look here, did he tell you all this, or is this some game?" "Hey!" exclaimed Adam Adams, pretending to be amazed. "Did he tell me. See here, I don't care if you are the boss, I am not going to run the risk of being sent up for twenty years for you. I came to help Styles out, that's all. I had the devil's own job getting out of Sidham without being followed.
"He would like to live there," said the sub-corporal, playing with the cartridges of his weapon, which were prepared for use in the shape of little sugar-loaves, and slung to the baldricks of the men. "Hey, Parisian!" said another; "you never saw the like of that, did you?" "He recognizes the good King Louis XII.," said a third.
I tell you, I believe it is a volcano, just as they told me, and perhaps she's going to break loose this very night!" "Hey! what ye a sayin' that for?" demanded Nick. "Supposin' she is what ye tell, that ain't any reason the explosion's got to come this particular night, is it? She's kept on a growling for a hundred year now, an' nawthin's happened.
He knocked me clean silly, and threw me out o' the door," whined the other, rubbing his head dismally. "Who was it any of that crowd from over by the hemlocks?" demanded Andy, much excited, and apparently ready to tear up things generally. "I reckon 'twar that Jerry Wallington wait till I gets him some day, that's all." "Hey, fellers, d'ye hear that? Another of that lot bagged in the cabin.
"That's the man who cut the trapeze," murmured Andy. "I'll rouse the clown and tell him. He's a dangerous man to have lurking around." "Hey! hey!" called out Tapp at just that moment. Both he and his companion started running towards Andy. There was that in their bearing that warned Andy they meant him no good. Andy did not pause. "Stop, I tell you!" shouted the man, Murdock.
Qem, the fellow who owns this place isn't the man to sit still and smile. He's going to get busy. Say, what paper do you come from?" "Peaceful Moments," said John. For a moment the inwardness of the information did not seem to come home to Mr. Gooch. Then it hit him. He spun round. John was standing squarely between him and the stairs. "Hey, what's all this?" demanded Mr. Gooch nervously.
Now comes it they say the country's goin' to be dry and put me out of business. What you think of that, hey? So they will shut booze joints like that feller McCarron runs, and even a nice place like this. So you can't buy a glass beer or a schoppen Rhine wine. What you think? Mebbe it's all talk, mebbe not. But listen!
No, that wasn't it, but it was something like Bird, or some kind of a bird." "Bird?" repeated Keziah thoughtfully. "There's no Birds that I know of in Wellmouth. Hum! Hey? 'Twa'n't Sparrow, was it?" "That was it Sparrow." "Good land! Emulous Sparrow. Run consider'ble to whiskers and tongue, didn't he?" "Why, yes; he did wear a beard.
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