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"Recollect, too, that Mrs Capperbar wants some vinegar the boatswain's is the best and a gallon or two of rum and you must corn some beef. The harness cask may remain on shore, and the cooper must make me another." "Yes, sir." "Master Henry's trousers are they finished yet?" "No, sir; Spriggs is at them now. Bailly and James are making Miss Ellen's petticoats."
"But you'd know, Jonathan," continued Spriggs, turning to the other friend of Skulpit's, who was sitting on a stool by the table, gazing vacantly at the petition. Jonathan Crumple was a meek, mild man, who had known better days; his means had been wasted by bad children, who had made his life wretched till he had been received into the hospital, of which he had not long been a member.
"Sink them all for parsons, says I," growled Moody; "hungry beggars, as never thinks their bellies full till they have robbed all and everything!" "Who's to harm you, man?" argued Spriggs. "Let them look never so black at you, they can't get you put out when you're once in; no, not old Catgut, with Calves to help him!"
Here's a nice new straw to drink your broth through, an' a pile more for you to chew on, like you're always doin'. Seems if a man must always have somethin' in his mouth, an' if it ain't tobacco it's straws. Spriggs he " "Don't give me no 'Spriggs, to-day; I couldn't stand him.
"I tell ye what I'd be afraid of I'd be afraid of not getting nothing from 'em but just what I could take by might and right; that's the most I'd be afraid on of any parson of 'em all." "But," said Skulpit, apologetically, "Mr Harding's not so bad; he did give us twopence a day, didn't he now?" "Twopence a day!" exclaimed Spriggs with scorn, opening awfully the red cavern of his lost eye.
A gold watch and chain, which had made a serious hole in his brother-in-law's Savings Bank account, lent an air of substance to his waistcoat, and a pin of excellent paste sparkled in his neck-tie. Under the influence of good food and home comforts he improved every day, and the unfortunate Mr. Spriggs was at his wits' end to resist further encroachments.
Are the lot of you soft enough to think that if a hundred a year be to be given, it's the likes of you that will get it?" and he pointed to Billy Gazy, Spriggs, and Crumple. "Did any of us ever do anything worth half the money? Was it to make gentlemen of us we were brought in here, when all the world turned against us, and we couldn't longer earn our daily bread?
"I felt I must see you all once more before I died," said her uncle, simply. "Just a flying visit I meant it to be, but your father and mother won't hear of my going back just yet." "Of course not," said Ethel, who was helping the silent Mrs. Spriggs to lay supper. "When I talked of going your father 'eld me down in my chair," continued the veracious Mr. Price. "Quite right, too," said the girl.
Spriggs and one of his chosen companions dreading the consequences of being captured and brought to justice, laid their pistols beside them in the interval, and pledging a mutual oath in a bumper of liquor, swore, if they saw no possibility of escape, to set foot to foot, and blow out each other's brains. But standing towards the shore, they made Pickeroon Bay, and escaped the danger.
'And so here we are, ensconced with my princess. She has a wonderful way with her, for mamma came without making the slightest objection, and seems happier than I have seen her for months. 'There are just four in the family, besides Martha Spriggs, the funny old girl. My princess, and her two stepbrothers, Stephen and Lemuel, and Polly, who has been a sufferer from spinal trouble all her life.
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