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"But," sez he wavin' off that side of the subject, "the observance is so time honored, so hallowed by tender memories and associations all through the past." "Don't you 'spoze, Deacon Garven," sez I, "that I know every single emotion them bells can bring to anybody, and felt all those memorys and associations.
"An old man 'tis like he was skipper o' the craft come runnin' for'ard, with half a dozen young fellows in his wake. 'Sheer off! sings the old one. He jabbered a bit more, all the while wavin' us off, but a squall o' wind carried it all away. 'We'll shoot you like dogs an you don't! says one o' the young ones; an' at that I felt wonderful mean an' wicked an' sorry. Back aft they went.
I felt I'd seen too many ornaments, I most knowed I should never hanker agin for a minaret or a mosque, or a steeple or a crescent, or a wavin' banner, or gildin', I felt that my heart would never more long and pine for water to squirt up in the air or drizzle down three or four hundred feet, nor for statutes or peaks or pillers.
The mate took the glass, and presently, removing the instrument from his eye, turned to Leslie. "You are right, Mr Leslie," he said, "there is somebody there, I can see him wavin' something. Now, the question is, what's to be done? The sun's pretty near settin', and it'll be dark in half an hour or thereabouts." "The more need that you should arrive at a prompt decision," interrupted Leslie.
Oh, we, we, we, Madame! Then a whole string of jabber and arm wavin', with some countin' in the middle of it. Now I've learned 'one, two, three' in French and I know he means for me to keep on for two or three more streets in the way he's pointin'. So I keep on, and, when I get there, I go through the whole rigamarole with another Frenchman.
"I'd not load one of them with a wild, impecunious Irishman like myself." "Then what?" says Pinckney. "Also where, and whither?" "Bulgaroo," says Larry, wavin' vague into space. "Is that a form of self-destruction?" asks Pinckney. "Almost," says Larry. "It's the nearest town to Sir Horace Vaughn's No. 6 sheep ranch.
"Although," says the lieutenant commander, as he starts back towards the Petrel, "I suppose I ought to fine you for exceeding the speed limit." The Agnes has got under way again, and we'd stopped wavin' good-by to the jackies, when I catches a glimpse of a head bein' poked cautious out from under the canvas cover of one of our lifeboats. Nudgin' Vee to look, I steps up to Mr.
The search-party couldn' understand at all what had happened in so short a time, too to make us so cordial; an' somehow we didn' explain neither we nor the blind men. I reckon the whole business had been so loonatic we felt it kind of holy. But the pore fellas kept wavin' back to us as they went out o' sight around the curve, an' maybe for a mile beyond. I never heard," Mr.
Talk about broad o's he spilled 'em easy and natural, a font to a galley; and he couldn't any more miss the final g than a telephone girl would overlook rollin' her r's. And such graceful gestures with the shell-rimmed glasses, wavin' 'em the whole length of the ribbon when he got real interested. I don't think I ever saw Auntie come so near beamin' before.
He answered dryly: "I wouldn't swear to it I wouldn't go so far as to make my affadavvy to it, but I think I seen your shirt wavin' from a p'int a rock about seventy mile to the south'ard over t'ward the Thunder Mountain country." "Gone?" "Gone" mournfully "where the woodbine twineth." "And my trousers?" "Where the wangdoodle mourneth fer his lost love. Blowed off.
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