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She said "doos" and "oop," and "knaw," and "jist," and "la-ike," but it sounded quite pretty from her soft little mouth, and Milly thought she had a very nice way of talking. "No, mother doesn't let us go in the water here, at least, not unless it's very warm. We paddle when we go to the sea, and some day father says we may have our bath in the river if it's very fine."
Tha wants us to go 'ome, why doezn't tha go 'ome thysen? Tha's a wife a zettin' oop there, an' m'appen she's waitin' with as fine a zermon as iver was preached from a temperance cart in a wasterne field!" He laughed again; Arbroath turned his back upon him in disgust, and strode up to the shadowed corner where Helmsley sat watching the little scene.
"Rats? Amorites?" said Laura, looking piteously at Polly, whose hand she held. Polly laughed, a bouncing, good-humoured laugh. She herself was a bouncing, good-humoured person, the apparent antithesis of her mother with her lively eyes, her frizzled hair, her high cheek-bones touched with a bright pink. "Yo'll have to get oop early to understan' them two," she declared.
"Ha oop! boys, thish is big hoo! hoo! ha oop! I say is big. Let's do somethin'!" Here there was a confused cry that "it was big, and that they had better do somethin' or 'nother." "Let's blow up the ole school-house," said Bill Day, who was not friendly to education.
"I don't remember anyone ever mentioning this. But it looks safe enough to cross. No more unpleasant surprises, I'm sure." At that moment a deep disembodied voice said, "Dinnah iss serffed, laddies and lassies, pliss shtep oop to da table." Everyone turned around to see who was speaking, but could see no one.
Be active a bit, man, wilt thou, and just force open his teeth with the haft of thy dudgeon-dagger." "Hold, hold he is conformable," said Tomalin; "see, see, he signs for the goblet give him room, boys! OOP SEY ES, quoth the Dutchman down it goes like lamb's-wool! Nay, they are true topers when once they begin your Turk never coughs in his cup, or stints in his liquoring."
"Ay, lad, I carried it out mysen, just as Mr Marston come oop wi' a lot of his lads, and Farmer Tallington come from t'other way; and we saved all we could, and got out the beasts and horses, but t'owd plaace is bont out." "And where is mother?" "All reight along o' my missus, bless her; and when we see we could do no more, squire began about who done it." "Yes: go on."
"They're feeling the net," cried Dick excitedly. "Ay, keep it oop, lads, or they'll come back," cried Dave, making the water swirl with his pole, which he worked about vigorously. Even as he spoke there came another splash, and this time the sun flashed upon the glittering sides of the fish which darted out and fell over the other side of the top line of the net. "There goes one," shouted Tom.
But no. He yust sit shut oop like ant neffer say von sinkle vord. An' here she coom my prewery, my saloon, my county seat, an' all in vonce." Hans would laugh till the tears ran down his rough red cheeks. Then blowing his nose like a blast against the walls of Jericho he would add: "Yon Yacob go back to Cincinnati. Doc Carey, he come Vest an' locate again right here.
So t' Colonel's Laady sends for me as 'ad a naame for bein' knowledgeable about a dog, an' axes what's ailin' wi' him. 'Why, says I, 'he's getten t' mopes, an' what he wants is his libbaty an' coompany like t' rest on us, wal happen a rat or two 'ud liven him oop.