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Yes, well might they gaze and gaze again in surprise and in excessive admiration; and well might Barney O'Flannagan under the circumstances, with such sights and sounds around him, and the delightful odours of myrtle trees and orange blossoms and the Cape jessamine stealing up his nostrils deem himself the tenant of another world, and evince his conviction of the fact in that memorable expression "I've woked in paradise!"
Coming to a place which was more open than usual, and where they could see a portion of the starry sky overhead, they sat down on a dry spot under the shelter of a spreading tree, and, leaning their backs against the trunk, very soon fell sound asleep. "I've woked in paradise!" Such was the exclamation that aroused Martin Rattler on the morning after his landing on the coast of South America.
"Neaw, this black Minorca, as aw sed, were a owdish bird, an' maybe knew mooar than aw thowt. Happen it hed laid on a nest wi' a fause bottom afooar, an' were up to th' trick, but whether or not, aw never see a hen luk mooar disgusted i' mi life when it lukked i' th' nest an' see as it hed hed all that trouble fer nowt. "It woked reawnd th' nest as if it couldn't believe its own eyes.
And what did he walk on the top o' the water for, master?" Duke looked a little puzzled. "I don't quite remember, but I think it was to help some poor men when the sea was rough." "No, no," said Pamela; "that was the time he felled asleep, and they woked him up to make the storm go away."
Oh, Tenby, my heart is so greavous for you, You haven't woked up for years. Why don't you open your eyelids up wide And laugh and dance and frolick outside? And why don't " "There can't be any more," said Pauline inexorably; "I'm at the bottom of the card." "Oh," said the little poetess piteously, "you must put in the end lines, can't you turn over?"
Coming to a place which was more open than usual, and where they could see a portion of the starry sky overhead, they sat down on a dry spot under the shelter of a spreading tree, and, leaning their backs against the trunk, very soon fell sound asleep. "I've woked in paradise!" Such was the exclamation that aroused Martin Rattler on the morning after his landing on the coast of South America.
Finding himself in the dark, where he could not be observed, he laughed deeply and silently, his mirth all the greater because of the oppressive gravity of every one else. Then bending over, he said, as he kissed the little one: "I thought you were asleep, Nellie?" "So I was, but Mr. Ruggles spoke those bad words so loud he woked me." "You mustn't get up again, will you?"
"I no dream no more arter dat, 'cause I was woked by a fly what hab hoed up my nose, an' kep' bumblin' in it like steam inside ob a kittle." "Well, Ebony," asked Orlando, "what conclusions do you draw from that dream?" "I di'nt draw no kungklooshins from it 'cos I dunno what de are. "Kine, Ebony not swine," interrupted the missionary, with a good-humoured smile, "which is all the same as cows."
"But it dudn't do as aw expected. Aw expected as it 'ud sit deawn ageean an' lay another. "But it just gi'e one wonderin' sooart o' chuck, an then, after a long stare reawnd th' hen-coyt, it woked eawt, as mad a hen as aw've ever sin. Aw fun' eawt after, what th' long stare meant. It were tekkin' farewell! For if yo'll believe me that hen never laid another egg i' ony o' my nests.
Yes, well might they gaze and gaze again in surprise and in excessive admiration; and well might Barney O'Flannagan under the circumstances, with such sights and sounds around him, and the delightful odours of myrtle trees arid orange blossoms and the Cape jessamine stealing up his nostrils deem himself the tenant of another world, and evince his conviction of the fact in that memorable expression "I've woked in paradise!"
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