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It is also reported that Jonah was swallowed down by a whale, and that when he had been there three days, and as many nights, he was vomited out upon the Euxine Sea, and this alive, and without any hurt upon his body; and there, on his prayer to God, he obtained pardon for his sins, and went to the city Nineveh, where he stood so as to be heard, and preached, that in a very little time they should lose the dominion of Asia.
"Don't say that again, Abe," Morris said. "You Jonah the feller that way. Somebody hears you saying Max is an old man and the first thing you know, Abe, they believe he is old. I told you before Max is only sixty; and when my grossvater selig was sixty he gets married for the third time yet." "Sure I know, Mawruss," Abe retorted. "Some fellers gets married for a wife and some for a nurse, Mawruss.
Under other circumstances I certainly would have departed quickly the way I came, but now I must find Nimrod. It was growing dark, and the bear looked a shocking size, as big as a whale. Dear me, perhaps Nimrod was inside Jonah style. Just then I heard a sepulchral whisper from the earth. "Keep quiet, don't move, it's the Big Grizzly."
"Aunt Esmerelda would catch us and tell Uncle Jonah," said Hortense. She meditated on the delightful possibilities of the box. "We could play hide and seek, sometime when nobody's about," she said. "It's a grand place to hide." "But we both know of it and there's nobody else to play with," said Andy.
"Ada's lookin' fer yous, Jonah," said Chook. "Yer don't say so?" replied the hunchback, raising his leg to strike a match. "Was Pinkey with 'er?" he added. "D'ye mean a little moll wi' ginger hair?" asked Chook. Jonah nodded. "My oath, she was! Gi' me a knockout in one act," said Chook; and the others laughed. "Ginger fer pluck!" cried someone.
"What is it you did on land?" he cried. "Confess it, man! There may be some chance for us if you go down on your knees and confess it." Duncan turned as fiercely upon Weeks. Both men were overstrained with want of food and sleep. "I'm not your Jonah don't fancy it! I did nothing on land!" "Then what did you come out for?" "What did you? To fight and wrestle for your ship, eh?
For three days and three nights the whale struggled desperately to digest Jonah, and for three days and nights Jonah obstinately refused to be digested. Never in the entire course of its life had it experienced such a difficulty.
Jonah, who had not before seen Fred's white complexion, long legs, and pinched delicacy of face, prepared many sarcasms in which these points of appearance were wittily combined with the lowest moral attributes.
"Mr Jones was called away suddenly over some arrangements for our sale that opens to-morrow. He left word with me that he'd be back as soon as possible," she said. Clara thanked her, and flushed slightly. It seemed as if Jonah were excusing himself in public for missing an appointment.
Overhead the sky, arched in a cloudless dome of blue, was reflected in the turquoise depths of the water. Then Mosman came in sight with its shaggy slopes and terra-cotta roofs, the houses, on the pattern of a Swiss chalet, standing with spaces between, fashionable and reserved. Jonah thought of Cardigan Street, and smiled.
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