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We know where they are and we'll watch the pond till daylight that is, unless Smith 'ud like to 'ave a try." "It's pretty near daylight now, I think," ses Smith. Lewis came out and ran up and down to dry 'imself, and finished off on 'is pocket-'andkerchief, and then with 'is teeth chattering 'e began to dress 'imself.
An' in regard o' the stockins', why, I've pulled them down, strivin' to look dacent, till one 'ud think the balls o' my legs is at my heels." "The sorra word's in that but thruth, any how," observed the father; "but what's to be done? For we have no way of gettin' them." "Faith, I don't know that," said Phelim. "What if we'd borry?
I don't understand." "Little Mavis is very young." "That's right: insult me," she laughed. "Those sort of people with a marriageable daughter aren't going to handicap their chances by having sweet Mavis about the house." "People aren't really like that!" "Not a bit; they're as artless as you. My dear little Mavis, one 'ud think you'd never left the nursery." "But I have." "Curse it, you have!
"I'll follow that trail after dinner," says he, catching up the others in time to hear O'Flynn say: "If it wusn't that ye think only a feller that's been to Caribou can teach ye annything it's Jimmie O'Flynn that 'ud show ye how to play a chune on that same whip-saw." "Will you show us after dinner?" "Sure I will." And he was as good as his word.
Thyrza put the flowers in water, Netta watching her in silence; then going into the hall, she returned with a pair of white lace curtains. "Shall I put 'em up? It 'ud mebbe be more cheerful." Netta looked at them languidly. "Where do they come from?" "Mr. Tyson brought 'em from Pengarth. He thowt you might like 'em for the drawing-room." Mrs.
And there's the fetching and carrying, as 'ud be welly half a day's work for a man an' hoss that's to be took out o' the profits, I reckon? But there's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water." "That difficulty about the fetching and carrying you will not have, Mrs.
"Dear, dear!" chuckled Mr. Barley, "five pounds! They may teach you young gentlemen to talk Latin and Greek and what not at your school, but it 'ud do a lot more good if they'd teach you how many beans make five; it 'ud do a lot more good if they'd teach you to come in when it rained, it 'ud do " Mike was reading the letter. "DEAR MR. BARLEY," it ran. "I send the £5, which I could not get before.
"Wal, I can't rightly give it you down to cents without considerin' Restless some," he replied unctuously. "But we did Toby Randall slap-up in ash fer fifty odd dollars. Then ther' was Sadie O'Brien. We did her elegant in soft pine for twenty-eight odd. It 'ud sure have been twenty-five on'y fer her weight. Y'see the planks under her had to be two inch or she'd ha' fell through."
When I've had them weakly spells, the' warn't nobody but Mel'dy could ha' brought me out of 'em alive, well I know. She tended me and sung to me like all the angels in heaven, and when she'd lay her hand on me well, there! seems's though my narves 'ud quiet right down, and blow away like smoke. I've ben a well woman that is to say, for one that's always enjoyed poor health sence Dr.
As for little Katty, "she'd never seen anybody doin' anythin' agin the child; it might happen by nature to be one of those little crowls of childer that 'ud always look hungry-like and pinin', the crathurs, if you were able to keep feedin' them wid the best as long as the sun was in the sky."
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