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"Ay; the Pawnees are at the Yellow Creek jist at this time, but I've heer'd they're 'bout to break up camp an' away west; so we'll need to use haste." "May I go, mother?" asked Dick, with a look of anxiety. There was evidently a conflict in the widow's breast, but it quickly ceased. "Yes, my boy," she said in her own low, quiet voice, "an' God go with ye.
Your great-grandmother wur a Romany, and it's my belief that if you only went back fur enough, you'd find you had jist as good Romany blood in your veins as I have, and my daddy is a duke, you know, a real, reg'lar, out-an'-out Romany duke. 'I'm afraid you flatter me, sister, I replied. 'However, let's try the Gorgios; and I got up and walked with her close to the two sketchers.
"Our hens don't lay a blame egg," Pap told Billings complainingly, "and Sally won't buy eggs, and I can't eat nothin' but eggs for breakfast, so I reckon I'll jist have to naturally starve to death." "Why don't you try some of our hen-food?" asked Billings, taking up a package and reading from the label.
It is found in rags as well as King's robes, where butter is spread with the thumb as well as the silver knife, NATUR IS NATUR WHEREVER YOU FIND IT. Jist then, in came one or two neighbors to see the sport, for they took me for a Sheriff or Constable, or something of that breed, and when they saw it was me they sot down to hear the news; they fell right too at politicks as keen as any thing, as if it had been a dish of real Connecticut Slap Jacks, or Hominy; or what is better still, a glass of real genuine splendid mint julep, WHE-EU-UP, it fairly makes my mouth water to think of it.
I heerd an Indian one day ax a tavern-keeper for some rum. 'Why, Joe Spawdeeck, said he, 'I reckon you have got too much already. 'Too much of anything, said Joe, 'is not good; but too much rum is jist enough. I guess these Bluenoses think so about their horses; they are fairly eat up by them, out of house and home, and they are no good neither.
And again Mr Cupples emptied his glass. "Hoo are ye prepared for yer mathematics?" he resumed. "Middlin' only," answered Alec. "I was doobtin' that. Sma' preparation does weel eneuch for Professor Fraser's Greek; but ye'll fin' it's anither story wi' the mathematics. Ye maun jist come to me wi' them as ye did wi' the Greek." "Thank you, Mr Cupples," said Alec heartily.
"I only asked you, or tried to ask you, if he would be likely to require you to tattle and to be a tell-tale, if he were so good as you describe him?" "It were jist putting before me eyes the maneness of the man. Is that nothing at all, and he a praste?" "Well, well, Annorah, we will say no more about him now. I am tired, and must rest. You won't mind being still a while?"
"Arrah! ye blasted Kerryonian!" replied the handsome fellow, depositing the coop on the curb and straightening his tall, slender figure; "I were jist thinkin' of yez and the ducks, and here ye come quackin' into the prisence of r'yalty, wid yer canvas- back suit upon ye and the schwim-skins bechuxt yer toes! How air yez, anyhow and air we startin' for the Kankakee by the nixt post?"
"Right away for the p'int that lies jist between you an' the sun." "Yes; I give them all credit for being excellent wives and mothers, after a fashion," resumed Harry. "I've no wish to asperse the character of the poor Indians; but you must know, Jacques, that they're very different from the women that I allude to and of whom Scott sung. His heroines were of a very different stamp and colour!"
"Anybody can see, majjor, that ye're yer father's son, and a souldier bor-r-n. Och! who would of t'ought of that, but one bred and bor-r-n in the army? Yes; the savages sent back as good as they got, which was jist not'in' at all, seem' that no one is har-r-m'd." "And the single piece that followed there was one discharge, by itself?"
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