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"Well, but, Barney, let me look at it, and see by the postmark where it's from. I shall know, directly, whether I will take it up or not." "And suppose that your honour should wish to open the letter! It's not for gentlemen like ye to be standing against the temptation; and then, the two thirteens, your honour."
"Not one, Mr Rainscourt," replied the lady, gloomily. The nurse reappeared with Barney. "Well, Barney, where's the letter?" said Mr Rainscourt; "let me look at it." "Sure, your honour, it's not me that's refusing it ye. But the master tould me `Barney, says he, `if you give his honour the letter without the two thirteens in your fist, it's a good bating that I'll give ye when ye come back."
Whenever I have been wrecked, we had sailed as cheerily as you please no thirteens, no Fridays, no dead men in the hold. I believe it generally happens that way. I dare say you remember those two Benton boys that were so much alike? It is no wonder, for they were twin brothers. They shipped with us as boys on the old Boston Belle, when you were mate and I was before the mast.
The Cristobal Colon and four batteries—two on the east side, one on the west, and one on an island in the middle of the channel, replied. Their 10 and 12-inch Krupps spoke shot for shot with our sixes, eights and thirteens. It was noisy and spectacular, but not effective on either side. The American fleet steamed across before the batteries at full speed; circled, and passed again.
Mike waited for them to reach their goal lines, and then placed the ball in the middle of a chalk-drawn circle. Toeing the line, Tom, Roger and Astro eyed the Arcturus crew and prepared for the dash to the ball. "All right, fellas," urged Tom, "let's show them something!" "Yeah," breathed Astro, "just let me get my size thirteens on that pumpkin before it starts twisting around!"
"There's five thirteens for you, and I wish to God, my good fellow, that you would allow yourself to be put in better feathers." "Oh, I expect my pinance will be out before a mont', shir; but, until den, I couldn't take any money." "Malcomson," said he to the gardener, "I think that fellow's a half fool. I offered him a crown, and also said.
In addition to the gas, our friends had succeeded in shooting up a large ammunition dump, four hundred yards farther on, and the smoke and fumes from the exploding bombs, shells and other ammunition, to say nothing of the ear-splitting din, got me speculating as to whether our 13-squad was to go the way of so many reported thirteens.
"And sure there's a letter for the master; Barney, the post-boy, is just bringing it." "Well, where is it?" replied Rainscourt. "He says that it's two thirteens that must be paid for it, and the dirty spalpeen of a postmaster told him not to give you the letter without the money for it in his fist." "Tell Barney to step in here have you two shillings, Mrs Rainscourt?"
Here, you bitter old randle-tree, there are three thirteens for you; and if you will go down to the kitchen with the cook, he will give you a regular skinful. The cook, knowing that the Cooleen Bawn wished to send some message back to you, sir, brought me down, and gave me not only plenty to ait and drink, but stuffed the praskeen that I had carried the eggs and chickens in with as much cold meat and bread as it could contain."
Meanwhile the conversation at Button's was fast and brilliant. "By Wood's thirteens, and the divvle go wid 'em," cried the Church dignitary in the cassock, "is it in blue and goold ye are this morning, Sir Richard, when you ought to be in seebles?" "Who's dead, Dean?" said the nobleman, the dean's companion.
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