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Then let your preparations all be made before the purchase is effected, so that your escape may follow instantly upon it before the inevitable questions come to be asked. You take me?" So well did Blood take him that within an hour he contrived to see Nuttall, and found the fellow as disposed to the business as Dr. Whacker had predicted.
That they all throve and returned to health under his care, whilst fully one third of the wounded in the care of Whacker and Bronson the two other surgeons died of their wounds, served to increase the reputation in which this rebel-convict stood in Bridgetown. It may have been no more than the fortune of war. But the townsfolk did not choose so to regard it.
The country is now stiff, and the stride of the waler tells. He is leading the country-breds a 'whacker, but he stumbles and falls at the last fence but one from home. His gallant rider, the undaunted 'Roley, remounts just as the two country-breds pass him like a flash of light. 'Nothing venture, nothing win, however, so in go the spurs, and off darts the waler like an arrow in pursuit.
'Ou, wha kens where ony o' them is now? puir things, they're sair ta'en doun for their white cockades and their white roses; but she gaed north to her father's in Perthshire, when the government troops cam back to Edinbro'. There was some prettymen amang them, and ane Major Whacker was quartered on me, a very ceevil gentleman, but O, Mr.
Your ship must have been lost quite recently, as you do not seem to have suffered. When you feel equal to it, I should like to hear the name of your vessel, and the particulars of her disaster. I suppose it was in the late blow, which was a whacker, and did lots of mischief along the coast. I see you are Americans, and that your boat is New York built; but all men in distress are countrymen."
Parson wanted me to do his "Caesar" for him." "Oh, what a whacker!" exclaimed Parson. "`I declined, owing to not knowing " "I can believe that!" added Parson. "`Both detained for gross conduct not knowing verbs my home is far away. Let out at 12:28." "What rot it is!" exclaimed Parson, looking up. "What a howling young ass he must be to put it all down!"
Jan. 27. i coodent go out of the yard this afternoon becaus i dident put ashes on the front steps before father fell down and so Pewt and Beany and Whacker and Nibby Hartwell and Diddly Colket and Nipper and Prisilla and Gim Wingit and lots of the fellers came over and we had a snowball fite. mother says she hops father wont keep me at home anuther afternoon.
Jan. 22. i had to stay in the wood-box today for whispering to Whacker with the cover down. i like it becaus they is a peep hole in the box and you can see the fellers and they cant see you. by and by Gimmy Fitsgerald whispered and old Francis put him in to and we took turns peeping. Jan. 23. it raned hard all day and we had one sesion.
And the name of that will be: "Bedtime Stories; Toodle and Noodle Flat-tail." The stories will be about some funny little beaver boys, and the queer things they did. Uncle Wiggily will be in that book, too, and so will many more of your animal friends, not forgetting Grandpa Whacker, the oldest beaver of them all.
And so this thought of evasion never entertained until planted there now by Dr. Whacker sprouted into instant growth. "I see, I see," he said, whilst his companion was still talking, explaining, and to save Dr. Whacker's face he played the hypocrite. "It is very noble in you very brotherly, as between men of medicine. It is what I myself should wish to do in like case."
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