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Expect to navigate to Africy same as the Horace M. Bickford that cleared t'other day, stocked for sixty thousand dollars." "Huh, you'd get lost out o' sight of land, John," is the cruel retort, "and that old shoe-box of yours 'ud be scared to death without a harbor to run into every time the sun clouded over. Expect to navigate to Africy with an alarm-clock and a soundin'-lead, I presume."
"Well, you're the right sort, and no mistake," said the man. "God bless you for a brave young heart! And, truth tell, I'll be very glad to have ye with me, for they do say as how poor old Waul's ghost haunts about here, and it 'ud be fearsome at night. I know that there's One as keeps them as has a good conscience, but yet I'll be glad to have ye all the same."
Well, if it hadn't been that his Holiness was in it, Father Tom 'ud have given him the contints of his tumbler betuxt the two eyes, for calling him a liar; and, in troth, it's very well it was in Latin the offence was conveyed, for, if it had been in the vernacular, there's no saying what 'ud ha' been the consequence. His Riv'rence was mighty angry anyhow.
"This is the purtiest rattler I've seen this season," he declared with enthusiasm. "Look at the markin' on him. I thought it ud show up kind of nifty laid around the cantle of your saddle. A rattlesnake skin shore makes a purty trimmin', to my notion. Don't know what he was doin' out of his hole so late in the season. He was so chilled I got him easy an old feller nine rattles and a button."
I question hadn't we done righter to have took a leveller bit of ground for under it. But I was thinkin' this mornin'" of what a different subject he had been thinking! "that next year I'd thry buildin' it agin' the back o' th' ould shed, where there does be ne'er a slant at all." "Ay, sure that 'ud be grand," said Mrs.
"Waddy ye want?" was the rather startled question of the farmer. "Well, ye see," began the stranger, in a deprecating tone, "we'd like t' git in f'r the night. We've tried every house f'r the last two miles, but they hadn't any room f'r us. My wife's jest about sick, 'n' the children are cold and hungry " "Oh, y' want 'o stay all night, eh,?" "Yes, sir; it 'ud be a great accom "
She felt herself falling into a stupor of grief and despair, when Robin laid his hand upon her arm. 'Why don't you ask God to waken baby? he asked. 'I don't know whether it 'ud be a good thing, she answered. 'Mother said she'd ask Him over and over again to let her take baby along with her, and that 'ud be better than staying here.
Put these colored things by; let me look at your nets, if you've got 'em." "Eh, mum, I told you how it 'ud be," said Bob, flinging aside the colored things with an air of desperation. "I knowed it ud' turn again' you to look at such paltry articles as I carry. Here's a piece o' figured muslin now, what's the use o' you lookin' at it?
'I mean that that I couldn't never marry you. 'Don't say that! You don't knew what I felt when I heard you singing. Have you heard any harm against me. Thyrza? I haven't always been as steady a fellow as I ought to be, but that was before I came to know you. It's no good, whatever you say I can't give up hope. Why, a man 'ud do anything for half a kind word from you. She was silent.
Pennyloaf still screamed, till at length the door was thrown open and their neighbour, Mrs. Griffin, showed herself. 'Well, I never! she cried, wrathfully, rushing upon Bob. 'Now you just stop that, young man! I thought it 'ud be comin' to this before long. I saw you was goin' that way. The mildness of her expressions was partly a personal characteristic, partly due to Mrs.
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