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I knowed this talonted man in Arkansaw, and if you would print this humbly tribute to his gorgis abilities, you would greatly obleege his onhappy friend. Was he a mining on the flat He done it with a zest; Was he a leading of the choir He done his level best. If he'd a reg'lar task to do, He never took no rest; Or if 'twas off-and-on the same He done his level best.
It is simply out of the question for these men, working together, to bring forth a product that does not have in it some remarkable thing some new point of view, some fact which your most careful research has not disclosed to you. I remember an instance in my own experience. There was a subject to which I had given some years of off-and-on study.
I never knew nor heard tell of her being flighty and fratchy before the squire's trouble." "Good hearts are plenty in good times, Ann Skelton. Miss Charlotte's temper is past all the last few weeks, she is that off-and-on and changeable like and spirity. Mrs. Julius says she does beat all." "I don't pin my faith on what Mrs. Julius says. Not I."
The Mexicans smoked yellow-paper cigarettes and watched his off-and-on movements with sullen distrust; they were firmly convinced that he was indulging in some sort of a practical joke. So they hated him fervently and wrapped themselves in their serapes.
He therefore resolved to paddle gently about, take things easy, watch the progress of the chase, and trust to the chapter of accidents giving him another chance. "You see, Oblooria," he said in the Eskimo tongue, which he was picking up rapidly, "it's of no use my pulling wildly about in all directions, blowing myself for nothing; so we'll just hang off-and-on here and watch them."
The only feeling which has any dignity or permanence or worth is family affection between close blood-relations. 'And yet you snub me sometimes, Mr. Kit. 'And, for the matter of that, you snub me. Still, you know what I mean there's none of that off-and-on humbug between us.
The wind became very light from the eastward, and the weather continued so foggy that nothing could be done during the night but to stand off-and-on, by the soundings, between the ice and the land.
As this remark called for no direct reply, Oblooria merely smiled indeed she more than smiled but said nothing. It is just possible that Leo's rendering of the phrase "off-and-on" into Eskimo may have sounded ridiculous. However this may be, the two sat there for some time, absorbed and silent spectators of the chase.
Night was now coming on; the privateer had got under weigh, and was standing off-and-on, with a flag of truce flying at her mast-head. The treacherous Indian with whom I had first conversed came, and with a malignant smile, gave me the dreadful intelligence that, at twelve o'clock that night, we were to be roasted and eaten.
I take back what I said. How could any one help being jealous seeing your off-and-on relations with him all this time, and you would never say one thing or another. Forgive me." She turned to him, and there were still indignant tears in her eyes. "It isn't fair!" she said. "It isn't fair! he is ill; you might have a little humanity." "And I didn't mean half what I said indeed I didn't!
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