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Bateson, that's a consolin' way of looking at things, and I only hope as you're right. But all the same, I'd have liked to have had a beau of my own just for onst, like other gells. I dessay it's very wicked o' me to feel like this, and it's enough to make the Lord angry with me; but it don't seem to me as there's anything in religion that quite makes up for never havin' had a beau o' your own."
"These are my friends, Jimmie Barker and Pete Holloway. They helped open up that derned spring. They drank a plenty of the water. Jimmie, here, couldn't git enough of it. They've the same symptoms as I hev." Jimmie and Pete writhed. "Pins and needles all over," said Pete. "Went to sleep on an ants' nest onst," said Jimmie faintly. "This is a heap worse."
"What for a looking fellow was he?" said the policeman. "Dark complected," was the reply. "Black mustache. He understood his business, I tell you now. Swallered five or six knives to onst, and give good satisfaction to any audience. It was him that brought us Gerty and Anne, that's the other little girl.
As there was no one forthcoming to claim the honor of the lead, Tammas came forward with cunning counsel. "Tell yo' what, lads, we'd best let 'em as don't know nowt at all aboot him go first. And onst they're on, mind, we winna let 'em off; but keep a-shovin' and a-bovin 'on 'em forra'd. Then us'll foller."
"We doesn't know whar he be, an' I'se 'feerd he couldn't lebe off puttin' out de fiahs." From time to time Vilet wailed, "Daddy, come, come quick. I'se gwine fas, an' I wants to see you onst mo'." Captain Bodine heard the cry, and, having rested himself a little, came to Aun' Sheba and asked, "Do you know where Kern is?" "I doan, Marse Cap'n, but he mought be at dis nighest fiah."
"Why, theer, lass. Can yo' not see? Then yo' pit your head along o' mine so closer closer." Then, in aggrieved tones: "Whativer is the matter wi' yo', wench? I might be a leprosy." But the girl was walking away with her head high as the snow-capped Pike. "So long as I live, David M'Adam," she cried, "I'll niver go to church wi' you agin!" "Iss, but you will though onst," he answered low.
'Trespassing? said I. 'I have fished here all my life; I am Walter Clifford, and this belongs to my father. 'Well, said the man, 'I've heerd it did belong to Colonel Clifford onst, but now it belongs to Muster Mills; so you must fish in your own water, young gentleman, and leave ourn to us as owns it. Till I was eighteen I used to shoot snipes in a rushy bottom near Calverley Church.
"The cliff is long here, and runs in so from that point, that if he went up any distance, it would be easy for him to be caught by the rising tide." "Course it would. O, yes, course. That's the very thing that struck me. It's very dangerous for an ole inexperienced man. But come, we mustn't stand talkin, we must hurry on, or we may as well go back agin, at onst."
The Lord knows I'm not proud, but I won't go into them chairs down by the font myself; but to see them Harrises, that to my certain knowledge hasn't a bite of butcher's meat in their heads but onst a week, a-settin' theirselves up " "Now, Mrs. Eccles, you know perfectly well all the seats are free in the evening."
"Faith," said Mick, on my telling him this, "it'll be moighty onplisint fur ye, Tom, me bhoy; thet gimblet oye ov his sames to go roight thro' an' thro' me, begorrah, if he ivver onst looks at me sure!" I did not mind Mick's chaff, though. The captain had been a good friend to me while I had been on board, and I parted with him with as much regret as I felt when I said `good-bye' to `Gyp.
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