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"All things is good ef we use 'em in moderation; but we've got ter use moderation, in eatin' an' drinkin', an' lobster sallid yes, an' even in passnips. Nothin' 'll dew but the same old rewl, even in passnips. "I heered voices deown to the shore last night," he continued, with a sort of yearning confidence toward me, so that I bent my ear nearer, with some of his own sorrow.
"I hadn't observed any lack of increase in your amiable race, sir." "Ye hadn't, hadn't yer?" said Captain Pharo, in the voice of a smouldering volcano, laying a fresh match to his pipe. "Moderation," liquidly pealed in the voice of Captain Leezur "moderation 's the rewl "
Did ye ever think," he resumed, "o' what a wonderful thing ile is, an' what 'd we dew without 'er? heow the wringin' machine 'ud seound when ye was turnin' on 'er for yer wife, Monday mornin's?" "No," said I sadly. "Then ag'in, it 's ile in yer natur' keeps ye ca'm an' c'llected, an' it's ile in yer dispersition l'arns ye t' say, 'Moderation 's the rewl, even in passnips."
"Four thousand?" said the passenger with an inquisitive and surprised rising inflection. "Hey?" said Jim, looking at him solemnly. "Tew times tew use to be four when I larnt the rewl of three in old Varmount. Mebbe 'taint so in the country you come from, where they call a pail a bucket." The passenger kept still awhile. The manner of the Superior Being chilled him a little.
An' as for the lady, 'twas a pleasure to obleege her, he says; 'an' I'd do it agin any day in the week, 'xcept Sunday, when I don't fight, ez a rewl, when I kin help it. Then the princess, she tried to kiss his hand; but Father said he guessed that warn't quite proper, an' the guardeens seemed to think so too.
This a'n't the newest news to me; I've been expectin' on't a long spell, an' I've talked consider'ble with Westbury folks about it; and there a'n't nobody much, round about here, but what'll stand out agin the Britishers, exceptin' Tucker's folks; they're desp'rit for Church an' King; they tell as ef the Lord gin the king a special license to set up in a big chair an' rewl creation; an' they think it's perticular sin to speak as though he could go 'skew anyhow.
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