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They no blamed the mate for ut, but me, an' me ashore ot the time on shup's buzz'ness. I could no be in the two places ot the one time. An' the letters from the owners an' the agents uz still comun' tull me. "Thot mate-fellow was no a proper sailor, an' no a mon tull work for owners. Dudna he want tull break me wuth the Board of Trade for bein' below my marks? He said as much tull the bos'n.
Smooth-mannered and astute men of business who knew how to make a man talk were given diffuse and loud-voiced explanations of his methods and long-acknowledged merits and characteristics. His life, his morals, and his training, or rather lack ot it, were laid before them as examples of what a man might work himself up to if "he had it in him." Education didn't do it.
"Next mornin' we put to sea again, and next day after comes another radio, and it says: 'PUT INTO NEAREST PORT. U-BOATS. And we put into Malta, and that night again I 'ad another 'ot barth and a fine sleep in my brahss bed. "We resume our voyage from Malta, and a two days later I gets another radio more U-boats and I puts into Algiers.
"Well, look 'ere, now, you take it from me, if there's a row Nugget will spread him out as flat as a newspaper. They've all been in the ring in their time, these coves. There's Nugget, and Ginger, and Brummy all red 'ot. You get him away!" Meanwhile the Englishman's ire was gradually rising.
"Fact is, Charlie, we pretty near gave 'em to understand as we'd buy it." "It's as good as settled," ses Mrs. Cook, trembling all over with temper. "They won't settle till they get the money," ses Charlie. "You may make your mind easy about that." "Emma's drawn it all out of the bank ready," ses old Cook, eager like. Charlie felt 'ot and cold all over.
"An' there was the motter o' them fire-bars ot Newcastle. The firm ashore made them heavier than the engineer's speecifications, an' then forgot tull charge for the dufference. Ot the last moment, wuth me ashore gettun' me clearance, they come wuth the bill: 'Tull error on fire-bars, sux pounds. They'd been tull the shup an' MacPherson hod O.K.'d ut. I said ut was strange an' would no pay.
Dudna her neighbours' an' all kuth an' kun savun' them thot luv'd un the house wuth her, get up an' walk out ot the christenun' of the second hum thot was cooked? Thot they dud, an' ot the very moment the munuster asked what would the bairn's name be. 'Samuel, says she; an' wuth thot they got up an' walked out an' left the house.
"A life of constant exercise, and fresh air; to-day for instance " "'Ot as a hoven!" said he. "Yet there was a good, cool wind," said I. "Ah! an' with dust enough to choke a man! And then there's the loneliness o' these 'ere roads." "Loneliness?" said I. "That's the word; sometimes it gets so bad as I'm minded to do away wi' myself " "Strange!" I began.
Among the Ot Danoms of Borneo girls at the age of eight or ten years are shut up in a little room or cell of the house, and cut off from all intercourse with the world for a long time. The cell, like the rest of the house, is raised on piles above the ground, and is lit by a single small window opening on a lonely place, so that the girl is in almost total darkness.
"Thanks, Signor," answered Montreal, maliciously, "but I, also, perhaps, have my own affairs to watch over. Adieu! I shall seek you at the earliest occasion. Fair night, and gentle dreams! 'Robers Bertrams qui estoit tors Mais a ceval estoit mult fors Cil avoit o lui grans effors Multi ot 'homes per lui mors."
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