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I can't describe it better than in big Ben's words: 'Mis Sterlin' is the nuss for me, marm. She takes care of me as ef she was my own mother, and it's a comfort jest to see her round. It's a gift, my dear, and you may thank heaven you have got it, for it works wonders in a place like this." "I only treat the poor fellows as I would have other women treat my David if he should be in their care.
He was just about to lay hold o' the side an' spring over when the skipper stumbled against him, caused him to miss his grip, an' sent him clean overboard. Poor Sterlin' had on his long boots an' a heavy jacket. He went down like a stone. We never saw him again." "Did none o' you try to save him?" asked Joe quickly. "We couldn't," replied Luke.
"Stiff sort of woman hout with it, sir, you'll not 'urt my feelins. I didn't marry Jemimar for her beauty, no, nor yet for her money nor her youth, for she aint young, sir older than myself a long way. I took her for her worth, sir, her sterlin' qualities. You know, sir, as well as I do, that it aint the fattest an' youngest 'osses as is the best.
Then we run along below the bank, and come out further down to draw off the rebs. Some followed us and we give it to 'em handsome. But some warn't deceived, and we heard 'em firin' away at the Captain; so we got back to him as fast as we could, but it warn't soon enough. Take my arm, Mis' Sterlin': it's kinder rough here." "And you found him?"
Me good an' great frind fr'm Rhode Island has made me th' akel iv anny Chink that iver rolled a pill. Th' tariff bill wudden't be complete without that there item. But it ought to read: 'Opyum f'r smokin' while readin' th' tariff bill. Ye can take this sterlin' piece iv lithrachoor to a bunk with ye an' light a ball iv hop.
"Young Steiner looked angry enough to eat him as he chuckled an' whustled in his dry old throat. "'Ye've not got your award yet, Steiner says. "'Na, na, says the auld man, in a screech ye could hear to the Hoe, 'but I've twa million sterlin', an' no bairns, ye Judeeas Apella, if ye mean to fight; an' I'll match ye p'und for p'und till the last p'und's oot. Ye ken me, Steiner!
"Judge," he said at length, "eight thousand pounds of money oughter make a powerful big pile, oughten it?" "It wouldn't weigh quite that much ef you put it on the scales," explained His Honor painstakingly. "I mean pounds sterlin' English money. Near ez I kin figger offhand, it comes in our money to somewheres between thirty-five and forty thousand dollars nearer forty than thirty-five.
Ye see, there's vast deeference between towin' a ship wi' men on her an' pickin' up a derelict a vast deeference in pounds sterlin'. Moreover, twa three o' the Grotkau's crew were burnin' to testify about food, an' there was a note o' Calder to the Board, in regard to the tail-shaft, that would ha' been vara damagin' if it had come into court. They knew better than to fight.
"The cap'n know about this?" asked Kirby. Driscoll shrugged. "He ain't deaf. But the cap'n also knows as how you can't be too big a gold-lace officer when you're behind the enemy lines with men on the run. We're gonna take Calhoun and take her good!" He grinned at the two veterans. "Jus' like we took Mount Sterlin'." Kirby was sober. "There was a take theah which warn't no good.
It was better still to see her hug Christie, when the latter emerged, flushed and breathless, from the chaos of arms, legs, and chubby faces in which she was lost for several tumultuous moments; and it was best of all to see the good woman place her cherished "bunnit" in the middle of the parlor table as a choice and lovely ornament, administer the family pocket-handkerchief all round, and then settle down with a hearty: "Wal, now, Mis Sterlin', you've no idee how tickled we all was when Mr.
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