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"By dad, we wor a great dale longer anyhow than he towld me he was." "To be sure we wor," said Barny; "he wint skulkin' in by the short cut, I tell you, and was afeard to keep a bowld offin' like me. But come, boys, let uz take a dhrop o' the bottle o' sper'ts we got out o' the brig.
The five officers were Captain Henry Johnston, Captain Eleazar Johnston, Offin Boardman, Samuel Treadwell, and one Mr. Deal. "Feb. 8th. Sunday. We have the paper wherein is an account of a letter from Dr.
I can SEE that money in the offin'. All this million or two that's comin' from poetry and such is out of sight in the fog. It may be there but humph! well, I KNOW where Z. Snow and Co. is located." Olive was not entirely placated. "I must say I think you're awful discouragin' to the poor boy, Zelotes," she said. Her husband put down his paper. "No, no, I ain't, Mother," he replied, earnestly.
"I just run down to ask if there was anything new in the offin'. Last time I see you, you hinted you and your mates had sighted somethin' or other through the fog, and it might turn out to be a rock or a lighthouse, you couldn't tell which. Made up your mind yet?" Sylvester shook his head. "No," he said, slowly; "it is still foggy. We're busy investigating, but we're not ready to report." "Humph!
Don Joseph, extreamly pleased with this Complaisance, sent a Boat express to advise the St. Joseph, but she was already sailed two Days, contrary to the Governor of Carthagene's Expectation, and, this Advice Captain Misson had from the Boat, which returning with an Answer, saw the Victoire in the Offin, and spoke to her. It was then resolved to follow the St.
A ship was in the offin'. She had distress signals flyin'. He could get neebody te man a boat but women; the men wadn't hev onythin' te dee wiv him, so his awn wife, Ailsie's Jenny, Nanny Dent, and Peggy Story went.
Cookin' school, I shouldn't wonder. I'd call it a portrait of a plate of scrambled eggs, if 'twa'n't for that green thing that's either a cow or a church in the offin'. Out of soundin's again, I am! But I knew she liked pictures, and so.... However, let's set sail for a jewelry store."
His companions, too, began to question Barny on the subject, but to their queries he presented an impenetrable front of composure, and said "it was always the best plan to keep a good bowld offin'." In two days more, however, the weather began to be sensibly warmer, and Barny and his companions remarked that it was "goin' to be the finest sayson God bless it that ever kem out o' the skies for many a long year, and maybe it's the whate would not be beautiful, and a great dale of it."
"Did you ever give it him before?" asked the young wife, her curiosity supplanting her alarm for the moment. "Gib him offin gib him every day much like it drink much." Again the wife's instinctive fear came back to her, and she endeavored to conceal it by a calm, unimpassioned exterior. "Won't you come in and rest yourself until Mr. Richter returns?"
Dixland. "So that was settled, all but notifyin' Augustus. But Scudder sighted another speculation in the offin', and hove alongside of it. "'Mr. Harmon, when he was here, says he, 'he mentioned you needin' a nice, dependable man to live on the island and be sort of general roustabout. My wife bein' away just now, and all, it struck me that I might as well be that man.
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