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"I think it is a very pretty cart, and I like your horse very much." "You do, eh?" "Yes," said Flora. "And I don't. That's the odds. He is rayther antiquated even for my business. The crows will have a bone or two to pick with him one of these days. Think they won't?" "If you please I should like to take a ride," said Flora, for the third time. "Polly want a cracker?"
"Well, yes; and it was a rayther lively bout till the enemy surrendered." "Did they surrender?" asked the commander of the company; for it was not the habit of the Southern troopers to yield, and he had been fighting with a portion of the same company that forenoon. "They couldn't help theirselves; we outnumbered 'em, and they had to give in or be cut to pieces."
I'd rayther be a hosier I'd rayther be a 'atter I'd rayther be an undertaker I'd rayther be a Pusseyite parson I'd rayther be a pig-jobber I'd rayther be a besom-maker I'd rayther be a dog's-meat man I'd rayther be a cat's-meat man I'd rayther go about a sellin' of chick-weed and sparrow-grass! added he, as his horse nearly slipped up on his haunches.
I'll t'ach him bitter manners." The gun was discharged, the bullet passing within a few inches of the head of the Indian, who sprung back with a grunt. "A purty good shot," laughed Teddy; "but it would be rayther tiresome killing game, being I could only hit them as run behind me, and being I can't saa in that direction, I'll give over the idaa; and turn me undivided attention to fishing.
"'Droll people, these, said one; 'Rayther rum ones, cried another; 'The black north, by Jove! said a third: and so we went along to the barracks, somewhat displeased to think that, though the 18th were slow, they might have met their match.
J down according to the book of etiquette, you know, giving her the wall side. Sorry, gentlemen, I havn't ladies apiece for you, but my sally-manger, as we say in France, is rayther small, besides which I never like to dine more than eight. Stubbs, my boy, Green and you must toss up for Belinda here's a halfpenny, and let be 'Newmarket' if you please. Wot say you? a voman! Stubbs wins!" cried Mr.
But I niver see thee now but on Sabbath day, and rarely then. Still we munnot speak o' such things on t' Lord's day. So thee mun just say how t' shop is doing, and then we'll leave such vain talk. 'T' shop is doing main an' well, thank ye, mother. But Coulson could tell yo' o' that any day. 'I'd a deal rayther hear fra' thee, Philip.
It's rayther lonesome at times; and," he added quite seriously, "a pig would be company." The boys looked at one another and smothered a laugh for fear of giving offence. "What, with a place like a jolly island all to yourself, where you live like a Robinson Crusoe and can keep tame magpies and anything you like, and your boat, and your dog, and eel-spear?" "And nets," put in Tom.
I'll risk it: will you?" Don was silent for a few moments. "Don't say yes, my lad, if you'd rayther not," said Jem, kindly. "I don't want to persuade you." "I'm ready, Jem. I was thinking whether it was right to let you go." "Oh, never you mind about me, my lad. Now, look here, shall us one go down each rope, or both down one?"
"I may have been mistook, I've been a thinking of it, it mayn't have been took down correct on this and that, and I won't swear to thick and thin, I'd rayther forfeit your good opinions than do it."