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But if you don't, you'll be taking to the road, and you won't be coming back till you're wanted." This settled Pete's restlessness. The fishing had begun early that season, and he went off for a night to the herrings. Kate waited long, and the women watched her with trembling. "It's a week or two early," said one. "The weather's warm," said another. "The boghee millish!
And then turning to his wife he said: "No need to stay up with her to-night, Christian Ann." "But won't the boght millish be afraid to be left alone?" she asked. I said I shouldn't, and she kissed me and told me to knock at the wall if I wanted anything. And then, with her husband's arm about her waist, the good soul left me to myself.
I'm a girl of this sort when I get my heart down, I can never get it up again. Fuller's earth, is it? Here, then." "Boo loo loo! the bog millish! Nancy, we must be shortening her soon." And with that they fell to an earnest council on frocks and petticoats, and other mysteries unread by man. Pete sat and watched and listened.
Lord Henry Spencer, Hookham Frere, Capel Lofft, and Mr. Millish, were also contributors to the columns of the Microcosm. In the year 1820 W. Mackworth Praed set on foot a manuscript journal, entitled Apis Matina. This was in turn succeeded by the Etonian, to which Praed contributed some of his most brilliant productions.
"Everybody's bound to hear it what with the bands practising for the procession, and the bullocks roasting for the poor, and the fireworks and the illuminations, and I don't know what." She was silent for a moment after that, and then in her simple way she said: "But it's all as one if you love the man, even if he is a lord." "You think that's necessary, don't you?" "What, millish?" "Love.
Katherine bogh! My little bogh! My I'll bogh millish!" In the deep hours of the night, after Nancy had grumbled and sobbed herself to sleep by the side of the child, Pete got up from the sofa in the parlour and stole out of the house again. "She may come up with the morning tide," he told himself. "If she does, what matter about a lie, God forgive me? God help me, what matter about anything?"
Pete, at Grannie's lap, was stroking the child's arm and her forehead with the tenderness of a woman. "The bogh millish! Seems aisier now, doesn't she, Grannie? Quieter, anyway? Not coughing so much, is she?" The doctor came at the moment, and Cæsar entered the room behind him with a face of funereal resignation. "See," cried Pete; "there's your lil patient, doctor.
"Let 'em have all the heaven they can git," he would remark, wiping his bloody knife upon the mane of his horse. "I expec' to smoke the pipe o' peace with all I meet on Canaan's shore, Cherokees, Creeks, or Chickasaws, Reg'lars, Millish, or Settlers."
"If it isn't the wind I don't know in the world what's doing on the millish," said the old lady. And then baby smiled through the big round beads that stood in her sea-blue eyes and held out her arms to me. Oh God! Oh God! Was not this my answer? In her different way Christian Ann had arrived at the same conclusion.
Thinking back to that time, and all the incidents which he had thought so heroic and I so tragic, we dropped into the vernacular, and I called him "boy" and he called me "bogh millish," and at every racy word that came up from the forgotten cells of our brains we shrieked with laughter. When Martin spoke of his skipper I asked "Is he a stunner?"
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