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You know where Governor Campbell lives, don't you, in a large stone house with a great wall round it, that looks like a state prison; well, near hand there is a nasty dirty horrid-lookin' buryin' ground there; it's filled with large grave rats as big as kittens, and the springs of black water there go through the chinks of the rocks and flow into all the wells, and fairly pyson the folks; it's a dismal place, I tell you; I wonder the air from it don't turn all the silver in the Governor's house of a brass colour and folks say he has four cart loads of it it's so everlastin' bad; it's near about as nosey as a slave ship of niggers.
"Here's the pyson at last, I says to myself; and when my turn came, I did as the others did, bowed to the sultan, feeling just like a tombola, and nearly going over; then I drank and what do you think it was?" "I don't know; go on." "Raspberry vinegar, and ah!"
One on 'em blushes like a red cabbage, when she speaks to me, that's the one, I reckon, I disturbed this mornin'. Cuss the rooks! I'll pyson them, and that won't make no noise. "She shows me the consarvitery. 'Take care, Sir, your coat has caught this geranium, and she onhitches it.
"If the sea was always calm," said he, "it would pyson the univarse; no soul could breathe the air, it would be so uncommon bad.
"'Mr Sorrow, sais aunty, 'I is actilly ashamed ob you to name a dish arter a yaller gall dat way, and call it Charlotte; it's ondecent, specially afore dese niggars. "'Law sakes, sais I, 'Miss Phillis, does you tink I ab no sense; I hate a yaller gall as I do pyson.
One on 'em blushes like a red cabbage, when she speaks to me, that's the one, I reckon, I disturbed this mornin'. Cuss the rooks! I'll pyson them, and that won't make no noise. "She shows me the consarvitery. 'Take care, Sir, your coat has caught this geranium, and she onhitches it.
If the sea was always calm, said he, it would pyson the univarse; no soul could breathe the air, it would be so uncommon bad.
You're not much of a boy, but you're too good to feed alligators with, or let the rattlesnakes and 'cassins try their pyson on." "But they wouldn't, I should take care." "Take care? Do you know, there's 'gators big as trees in these swamp-holes. I shouldn't wonder if there's some of the old open-countenanced beauties big round as houses.
If there is a good dish and a bad one set before me, I am something of a rat, I always choose the best. There are few animals, as there are few men, that we can't learn something from. Now a rat, although I hate him like pyson, is a travelling gentleman, and accommodates himself to circumstances.
She said I was very stupid, and I must say it over and over again till I recollected it. Well, it was astonishing how quick she picked up English, and what progress I made in Gaelic; and if it hadn't been for mother, who hated the language like pyson, I do believe I should soon have mastered it so as to speak it as well as you do.
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