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"Bain't you goin' to cut 'is 'ed orf, master?" asked one of the applauding crowd. He had backed the dragon, and naturally felt a trifle sore. "Well, not to-day, I think," replied St. George, pleasantly. "You see, that can be done at any time. There's no hurry at all.
'Very good, I said; where are you going to? 'Goin' to walk 'im orf wen 'e comes out two miles or three or fower, said Ortheris. The footsteps within ceased. I heard the dull thud of a knapsack falling on a bedstead, followed by the rattle of arms.
After this we 'ave a very beautiful pitcher hintitled "Four footed Haristocrats". 'Ere you see Lady Slumrent's pet dogs sittin' up on chairs at their dinner table with white linen napkins tied round their necks, eatin' orf silver plates like human people and being waited on by real live waiters in hevening dress.
Why don't you behave desunt like other folks? Go to work and earn a honist livin and not stay round here in this lazy, shiftless way, pizenin the moral atmosphere with your pestifrous ideas! You wimin folks go back to your lawful husbands if you've got any, and take orf them skanderlous gownds and trowsis, and dress respectful like other wimin.
A bloomin', stinkin', first-class imposyshun but it don't tyke me in. Not it." Jimmy kept still. Donkin put his hands in his pockets, and in one slouching stride came up to the bunk. "I talk what's the odds. They ain't men 'ere sheep they are. A driven lot of sheep. I 'old you up... Vy not? You're well orf." "I am... I don't say anything about that...." "Well. Let 'em see it.
We don't sweat to know 'ow you brung it orf. On'y don't you go for to shoot, 'cos we 'int awmed, s'help me Gord!" "Ah, you're a knowin' one," said Rosenthall, fingering his triggers. "But you've struck a knowin'er." "Ho, yuss, we know all abaht thet! Set a thief to ketch a thief ho, yuss."
"Look 'ere, my lad, if I comes over there I'll twist yer tongue and tie it up behind yer 'ead, an' it wont be a Blighty yer'll 'ave no, it'll be a blooming' corfin." "Shut yer row, the two of you," Casey shouted, "yer like a couple wots been married a year, chewin' each others 'ead orf. Come yere an' give me a 'and, Stumpy."
Ho my dear frens, don't go puttin' it orf from day to day like a door turnin' on its 'inges, don't put orf to some more convenient time because you may never 'ave another chance. 'Im that bein' orfen reproved 'ardeneth 'is neck shall be suddenly cut orf and that without remedy. Ho come to 'im tonight, for 'Is name's sake and to 'Im we'll give hall the glory. Amen.
The barber's shop had been besieged by shaggy crowds; and since the barber, being but human, could not cope with more than a small proportion of his would-be customers, amateur clipping parties had been in full swing forward, frequently with terrifying results. Nobody minded. "Git it orf, that's all that matters!" was the motto of the long-haired.
There was an oath, the Corporal fell over his own left as shinbone met shinbone, and the Private collapsed, his right leg broken an inch above the ankle. "'Pity you don't know that guard, Sim," said Slane, spitting out the dust as he rose. Then raising his voice "Come an' take him orf. I've bruk 'is leg."
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