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Aurora now first opened her casement, Anglice the day began to break, when Jones walked forth in company with the stranger, and mounted Mazard Hill; of which they had no sooner gained the summit than one of the most noble prospects in the world presented itself to their view, and which we would likewise present to the reader, but for two reasons: first, we despair of making those who have seen this prospect admire our description; secondly, we very much doubt whether those who have not seen it would understand it.
Mazards! how the diction of our orator is enriched from the vocabulary of Shakspeare! the word head, instead of being changed for a more general term, is here brought distinctly to the eye by the term mazard, or face, which is more appropriate to his majesty's profile than the word skull or head. By the holy! you flesh'd 'em, says he.
"Yaas," said he, in response to my inquiry whether he had heard if my friend was ill "yaas, he do look dicky. `Governor, says I, `what's up? I says. `Up, says he, `what do you mean by it? says he. `Go on, says I, `as if you didn't know you was queer! `I ain't queer, says he. `Oh, no, ain't you, says I; `what do you want to look so green about the mazard for, then? says I. `Oh, that's nothing, says he; `reading late at night, that's what that is, says he. `Turn it up, says I. `So I will, says he, `when my Sam's over, says he.
For the rest, he never thought about thinking, or felt about feeling; and had no ambition whatsoever beyond pleasing his father and mother, getting by honest means the maximum of "red quarrenders" and mazard cherries, and going to sea when he was big enough.
Upon which he easily persuaded his fair companion to strike with him into a path which seemed to lead directly through the wood, and which at length brought them both to the bottom of Mazard Hill. Whether the execrable scheme which he now attempted to execute was the effect of previous deliberation, or whether it now first came into his head, I cannot determine.
But, bless you, he was glum about the mazard, he was." "What do you mean?" I asked. "Ga on!
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