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"That's the tenth life he's saved since he came aboard to say nothin' o' savin' the ship herself," remarked the Captain to an inquirer, after the vessel had reached her moorings. "An' none o' the lives was as easy to manage as that one. Some o' them much harder." We will follow this magnificent seaman for a time, good reader.
I You are bound for Condy Dalton's, then?" she added, inquiringly. "I am," said the other. "I think you must be a stranger in the country, otherwise I'd know your face," continued Nelly "but maybe you're a relation of theirs." "I am a stranger," said the other; "but no relation." "The Daltons," proceeded Nelly, "are daicent people, but hot and hasty, as the savin' is.
I doot ye'll get's a' into ower het water; and a body needna tak' the skin aff for the sake o' cleanliness. Having thus persisted in opposing Thomas to a degree he had never dared before, James took his departure, pursued by the words: "Tak ye care, Jeames, that in savin' the richt han' ye dinna send the haill body to hell. It was aye yer danger. I never got bauld coonsel frae ye yet."
It's a savin'. The rest are nothing but girls I'm all the boy we've got. Boys are tough. But I don't s'pose you ever was one, so you don't know?" There was an upward inflection to the voice of the Little Blue Overalls. An answer seemed expected. "No no, I never was one," Miss Salome said, hastily. She could hear Anne's plodding steps in the hall. It would be embarrassing to have Anne come in now.
I won't do it no more, I won't, indeed." "Well, what did you mean then?" "Why I meant her ten fingers, to be sure. When a woman clapper claws her husband, we have a cant tarm with us boys of Slickville, savin' she gave him her ten commandments." "And a very improper expression too, Sir," said Mr. Hopewell; "a very irreverent, indecent, and I may say profane expression; I am quite shocked.
Harry, and on the young lady too, sir, savin' your presence. So when Mr. Harry was goin' to Oxford to college, he come to me, and he says to me, "Mr. Legge," says he, "it's a very expensive thing sending my boy to the University," says he, "and I'm going to borrow money to send him with." "Don't you go a-doin' that, Mr.
"Now," said Larry, "to let you see that my son's not widout something to begin the world wid Phelim, shill out the rest o' the yallow boys." "Faix, you ought to dhrink the ould woman's health for this," said Phelim. "Poor ould crathur, many a long day she was savin' up these for me. It's my mother I'm speakin' about." "An' we will, too," said the father; "here's Sheelah's health, neighbors!
But isn't that nonsense, says I? If ye split up the land into patches as big as yer hand and give every man a patch, wouldn't some men have twenty or a hundred, or maybe a thousand patches in five years? An' thin, thim that was lazy an' wasteful an' got out o' their land would be for shootin' the savin', sthrivin' man that worked his way up by buying out the drones.
"I've bin in Virginia, and Maryland, sir," he said at last seriously, "and if the young woman is a Fairfax, she'll likely have influence enough ter do just whut she says. They ain't over-kind ter pirates in them provinces o' late, I've bin told but the savin' o' her life wud make a heap o' difference with the Governor. Yer know she's a Fairfax?" "Absolutely.
'You're savin' more than you know. For if he'd come back I wouldn't answer for it that I wouldn't have kilt him as he slep'. The morning rose green and livid, with a sky full of snow though the world was covered with it.
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