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Sit ye doon there by the chimla neuk, till I mask ye a dish o' tay. Or maybe ye wad prefar a drap o' parritch an' milk? It's no muckle I ha'e to offer ye, but ye cudna be mair walcome." As easily appeased as irritated, the old man sat down with a grateful, placid look, and while the tea was drawing Mrs Findlay, by judicious questions, gathered from him the history of his adventures.
But as I have come so far, Ill go down and have a talk with the old man, and maybe well fry a steak of the deer together. Well, if you can get in peaceably, so much the better, said the magistrate. To my notion, strife is very unpopular; I prefar, at all times, clever conduct to an ugly temper.
Young as I am, I've lived long enough to l'arn there's two sorts of characters in the world them that is 'arned by deeds, and them that is 'arned by tongues, and so I prefar to see and judge for myself, instead of letting every jaw that chooses to wag become my judgment.
And even that same trick she played me, though very wicked, to be sure, was very nat'ral ay, very nat'ral to prefar her own flesh and blood if she could: and no one could be more sorry for the wrong she did me than she is now: there she is crying at home, ready to break her heart: but as I tell her, there's no use in repenting a thing when once it is done; and as I forgive her, none can ever bring it up against her: and as to the house and farm, she shall surely have that, and shall never want for any thing.
Ye can never win upo' the back o' her, for as guid a rider as ye're weel kent to be, my bairn. Sae wull ye hae a drappy parritch an' ream? or wad ye prefar a sup of fine gruel, sic as yer mother used to like weel frae my han', whan it sae happent I was i' the hoose?"
"Poh! poh! Joshua," answered Jack good-naturedly, "do n't distress yourself on a consail. In the first place, you've got no nose to be put out of joint; or, if you have really a nose, it has no joint. It's nat'ral for folks to like their own colour, and the ladies prefar me, because I'm white." "No so werry white as all dat, nudder," grumbled Josh. "I see great many whiter dan you.
"Ay, Huron this is soon settled, accordin' to your notions, but it goes sorely ag'in the grain of a white man's feelin's. I've heard of men's saving their lives this-a-way, and I've know'd them that would prefar death to such a sort of captivity. For my part, I do not seek my end, nor do I seek matrimony." "The pale-face will think of this, while my people get ready for the council.
"The willian who is captain of this brig; and all because he thinks young eyes and bloomin' cheeks prefar young eyes and bloomin' cheeks to his own grizzly beard and old look-outs."
Possum we parboil den pick him up and bake him. Of all dat meat I prefar fish and rabbit. When it come to vegetables, cabbage wuz my delight, and turnips. De slaves had their own garden patch. "I wore one piece suit until I wuz near grown, jes one garment dat we called et dat time, going out in your shirt tail.
You may you must; and don't come up for any of 'em any more. It's hard if I can't have a minute to talk to myself. Pat. O'Bla. Where was I? I was popping the question to Honor McBride. The only thing is, whether the girl herself wouldn't have an objection: there's that Randal Rooney is a great bachelor of hers, and I doubt she'd be apt to prefar him before me, even when I'd purpose marriage.
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