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Holy Virgin!" cried Vebba, with his mouth full of the Phrygian attagen, "how came anything Moorish in our Christian island?" Godrith laughed outright. "Why, our cook here is Moorish; the best singers in London are Moors. Look yonder! see those grave comely Saracens!" "Comely, quotha, burnt and black as a charred pine-pole!" grunted Vebba; "well, who are they?"
It was immaterial what was the character of the man, if he served Moore, Moore was his friend, and he would cling quite as close to one in the penitentiary as in the halls of Congress. It made no difference whether he wore cloth or cottonade, lived in a palace or pine-pole cabin, whether honest or a thief, the touchstone to his heart was, "He is my friend, and I am at his service."
The other was a plain red-painted, tapering pine-pole which she said, when it fell to the ground, would tell of the death of some one related to an inmate of the house. Should it lean towards the house it foretold misfortune; or if she were any time away, when she was returning she would send her Mullee Mullee to sit on the top and bend it just to let us know.
De rain fall so saf' in de long dark night, Twel you hatter hol' yo' han' for a sign, But de drizzle w'at sets de tater-slips right Is de makin' er de May-pop vine. In de mellerest groun' de clay root 'll ketch En hol' ter de tongue er de plow, En a pine-pole gate at de gyardin-patch Never 'll keep out de ole brindle cow.
It will show badly in your pine-pole cabin." "I intend having the cabin, every log of it, painted red as lightning," said Moore. "The silver shan't be disgraced."
Holy Virgin!" cried Vebba, with his mouth full of the Phrygian attagen, "how came anything Moorish in our Christian island?" Godrith laughed outright. "Why, our cook here is Moorish; the best singers in London are Moors. Look yonder! see those grave comely Saracens!" "Comely, quotha, burnt and black as a charred pine-pole!" grunted Vebba; "well, who are they?"
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