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"Green's grass!" he grumbled, and slashed another. Patsy giggled, and the others felt a sudden irresistible impulse to join her. "Keep still!" cautioned McNutt. "Wouldn't ol' Dan be jest ravin' ef he knew this? Say here's a ripe one. Hev a slice." They all felt for the slices he offered and ate the fruit without being able to see it. But it really tasted delicious.
Trop de soleil si le Causse est bas, trop de neige s'il est eleve, toujours et partout le vent, qui tord les bois chetifs, pour lac, une mare, pour riviere un ravin, de rocheuses prairies tondues par des moutons et des brebis a laine fine, des champs caillouteux d'orge, d'avoine, de pommes de terre, rarement de ble, voila les Causses!
The message goes on to say that the captain's name is Coke, and that he is accompanied by his daughter. . . . Eh? What did you say? . . . Are you there?" "Yes, I'm 'ere, or I think I am," said David with a desperate calmness. "Is that all?" "All for the present." "It doesn't say that Coke is a ravin', tearin', 'owlin' lunatic, does it?" "No. Is that your view?"
And when he finds himself there, a-standin' in the street, near Major Pine's tavern, with his hands in his trouser pockets, a-chasin' of a stray shillin' from one eend of 'em to another, afore he can catch it to swap for a dinner, won't he look like a ravin' distracted fool, that's all? He'll feel about as streaked as I did once, a-ridin' down the St. John river.
One of 'em thought 't was the husband, though he set such store by his wife he went ravin' crazy when he heard she was dead, one of 'em laid it on the children, though they was both under six years old; and one decided it was suicide, though the woman was a church member and didn't know how to fire a gun off, besides.
"Iggs indade!" he exclaimed, as Saloo made mention of the article; "I'd loike to see one, an could ate a basketful of them, if they were as big as swans'. What puts iggs in your head, nigger?" "Eggs no long way off," rejoined the Malay. "Plenty egg if we knowee whale find 'em." "How do you know that? Ye're ravin', Saloo." "No lavin, Multa. You heal lass night the malee?
They couldn't all on 'em have it. Christopher couldn't be in three places at one time and simultanous, no matter how much calculation he had about him. No, that wuz impossible. He had to be in one place. And they fit, and they fit, and they fit, till I got tired of the very name of the World's Fair, and Josiah got almost ravin' destracted.
"Bridget," Sullivan said, turning to his wife, "I tell you that I came upon that undutiful daughter of ours coortin' wid the son of the man that murdhered her uncle, my only brother coortin' wid a fellow that Dan M'Gowan here knows will be hanged yet, for he's jist afther tellin' him so." "You're ravin', Jerry," exclaimed his wife.
Pike snarled. "I told you, sir, because he annoyed me. I got tired of it, an' so, this morning, I just put him out of his misery. An' what are you goin' to do about it? The man's dead, ain't he? An' I killed 'm in self-defence. I know the law. What right'd you to put a ravin' lunatic in with me, an' me sick an' helpless?" "By God, Davis!" the mate burst forth.
How they'll all larf and crow, when they see me a thrashin' away at the hoss, and then him goin' slower, the faster I thrash, and me a threatenin' to shoot the brute, and a talkin' at the tip eend of my tongue like a ravin' distracted bed bug, and offerin' to back him agin, if they dare, and planken down the pewter all round, takin' every one up that will go the figur', till I raise the bets to the tune of fifty thousand dollars.
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