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"His Majesty" had also been tasting, and with every taste the royal mind seemed to assume a new phase. "In our coort," said "His Majesty," "as at prisint constichooted, we cannot offer the injuicemints that are held forth at Vienna, Berlin, an' St. Paytersburg; but we can furnish some lads that can bate the worruld. I'd like to howld a coort an' have the ladies. We'd have a ball.
Granny bade them both come back again, and followed to the door with a hearty farewell. At the same moment she said: "Howld on!" Then she went to the one bed in the room, which also was the house, turned down the clothes, and in the middle exposed a lot of rosy apples. She picked out two of the best and gave one to each of the boys.
It hasn't fat enough to slide in, much less to swim. It's my belief that the pig as owned it was fed on mahogany-sawdust and steel filin's. There, ait it, an' howld yer tongue. It's good enough for a goold-digger, anyhow."
The eager look that came into his face showed that he understood what was meant; but he only hugged his property more tightly and shook his head from side to side. "I knew he wouldn't part with it," said Elwood. "Howld on a minute," replied Tim; "I'm only throwing out me skirmishers; I'll fetch him yet. He's larned how to make a bargain."
Can ye go to town, Jim, in a hurry?" "I can," Jim replied. "I mean now, this very minute, slappet-bang!" Jim started for the door. "Howld on, Jim!" Pearl cried, "don't you want to hear what ye'r goin' for? Take this box to Camilla Camilla E. Rose at Mrs. Francis's and she'll do the rest. It's flowers for poor Polly, sick and dyin' maybe with the fever.
The moment I git howld o' that blackguard's knife I'll cut yer lashin's. Stand by for a rush." As Larry spoke, the tall savage drew the knife referred to from his girdle, and, glancing over his shoulder, said in English "Keep quiet, lads. I'll do my best to save 'ee; but if you offer to fight, you're dead men all in five minutes."
"Hallo! hi! hooroo!" came at that moment from a long distance to the right, in unmistakable tones. "Here he is, down this way. Stop, you big thief! Howld him. Dick! Have ye got him?" There was a general rush and scramble towards the owner of the bass voice, and Tom, who at once perceived the ruse, went quietly off in the opposite direction.
It's a great thing for a young gyerrel to become the Quane av Spain; an' as for yerself, why, av coorse there's no ind to the honors an' dignities an' lucrative offices that ye'd be afther gettin' howld av. Ye'd be a kind av father-in-law to the Quane. Ye'd be made Ministher av War or anythin' else ye axed for. Ye'd be made a Juke av Gibraltar an' Prince av the Pyrenees.
"`Halloo! cried a dozen men, jumpin' at me. `Wot's that for? `Scrag the hunter, cries one. `Howld yer long tongues, an' hear what he's got to say, shouts an Irishman. "`Keep your minds easy, says I, mountin' a stump, `an' seize that Injun, or I'll have to put a ball into him before he gits off' for, ye see, I obsarved the black villain took fright, and was sneakin' away through the crowd.
"I ran off like a fool when I heerd of your good fortune, and see the condition that baggage left me in my teeth knocked in and my eye knocked out, and all for your foolery, because you couldn't keep what you got." "Sure, mother, I tell you " "Howld your tongue, you omadhaun! And then I go to Squire O'Grady's to look for you, and there I hear you lost that place, too."
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