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"You're just cuttin' capers, Tim, becuz you've heard that we're takin' the war-path quit pullin' me, you big Irish elephant! Is it true we're takin' the war-path?" "How do I know?" cried Murphy; but the twinkle in his blue eyes betrayed him; "bedad, 'tis home to the purty lasses we go this blessed day, f'r the crool war is over, an' the King's got the pip, an " "Murphy!" I said.
CAPT. G. Since you insist upon my repeating it Yes. MRS. H. Lie the first. I wish I knew a coarser word. Lie seems so ineffectual in your case. The fire has just died out and there is no fresh one? Think for a minute, Pip, if you care whether I despise you more than I do. Simply Mafisch, is it? CAPT. G. Yes. MRS. H. Lie number two. Before the next glass chokes you, tell me her name.
"Yew got the pip!" retorted Captain Darby contemptuously, and trotting quickly around to the side of the bed, he seized Abe by the shoulders and began to drag him out upon the floor, crying again, "Git up!"
"First I thought it was the triphammer," said Archer; "then I thought it was the mixing valve; then I thought it was bronchitis on account of the noise it made, and after that I decided it was German measles. Blamed if I know what's the matter with it. It's got the pip, I guess. I was going to file a nick in the make-and-break business but they're too foxy to give me a file.
Pip had his hands in his pockets and stood on the hearthrug, looking gloomily at a certain plate, and refusing breakfast altogether; the General was crashing his own mug and plate joyously together; and Bunty was eating bread and butter in stolid silence. Judy, white-faced and dry-eyed, was sitting at the table, and Nell and Baby were clinging to either arm.
I know the man who put it there," he went on, glaring at Osterman, "and that man is a PIP. Sloop! Slimy, disgusting stuff; you heard me say I didn't like it when the Chink passed it to me at dinner and just for that reason you put it in my bed, and I stick my feet into it when I turn in. Funny, isn't it? Oh, yes, too funny for any use. I'd laugh a little louder if I was you."
"The cat has a sore tail," said she, "by reason of sitting too close to a part of the hob that was hot. The dog has a toothache, the horse has a pain in her stomach, and the hen has the pip." "Ah, it's a sad world," said mac an Da'v. "There you are!" said the hag. "Tell me," Mongan commenced, "if you got a wish, what it is you would wish for?"
The coaster disappeared as if smothered under the gray woolly blanket that had settled down on every thing. "Why don't we come to the wharf?" inquired Pip. "Because we haven't got there." Will's reason was received with laughter, but Pip persisted in his questioning. "What if we thouldn't get there at all?" "O we will." Gov.
"You expected," said Miss Havisham, as she looked them over, "no premium with the boy?" "Joe!" I remonstrated, for he made no reply at all. "Why don't you answer " "Pip," returned Joe, cutting me short as if he were hurt, "which I meantersay that were not a question requiring a answer betwixt yourself and me, and which you know the answer to be full well No.
"My friend," retorted Pip, emitting a curling geyser of smoke as long and thin as a pool-que, "you 're sure laborin' under the misapprehension this steamer o' mine is a Pacific mailer! But she ain't, Blake!" "I admit that," quietly acknowledged the other man. "I saw her yesterday!" "And she don't carry no passengers she ain't allowed to," announced her master.
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