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Here my friend interrupted her, saying, "Don't you think, Mrs K, that you would be more comfortable if you were to keep your house cleaner? It costs nothing, you know, but a little labour; and you have nothing else to do just now." "Ah, then," replied she; "see here, now. I was just gettin' the mug ready for that same, whenever ye wor comin' into the yard, I was.

'Jim Soolivan, says she, as soon as he was done, 'go back, for God's sake, an' don't be freakenin' me an' your poor fatherless childhren, says she. 'Why, you bosthoon, you, says Jim, 'won't you let your husband in, says he, 'to his own house? says he. 'You WOR my husband, sure enough, says she, 'but it's well you know, Jim Soolivan, you're not my husband NOW, says she.

It was daybreak when the ship sailed calmly over the lagoon towards Silver Bay. "Och! man," said Teddy Malone, in a low voice, to Jabez Jenkins, who stood near him, "why did ye want to run away wid the owld ship? It wor a sneakin' sort o' thing, warn't it, seein' that the poor little childers, an' the women, depind so much on what's inside of her?"

The father and mother looked at it for a considerable time, then at each other, and shook their heads. "Phelim!" said the father, solemnly. "Phelim!" said the mother, awfully; and both shook their heads again. "You wor never over-scrupulous," the father proceeded, "an' you know you have many little things to answer for, in the way of pickin' up what didn't belong to yourself.

We wor a bit sleepy, but we're quite wakken noo. Keep yor shirt on, and we'll do better next time." When the canoes, which were built entirely with sheets of bark, were drawn up on the beach, nothing was found in them but a few sticks, bark paddles, and a gown a lilac cotton gown. "That goon," said Campbell, "has belonged to some white woman thae deevils have murdered.

Tell me, Nell fury of hell, woman can it be possible no well I'll murder him, though; but can it be possible that she's guilty? eh? She wouldn't prosecute him No no she would not." "She is not worthy of you, blackey. Lord save us! Well, troth, I remimber whin you wor in Lord S 's, you were a fine young man of your color.

But He's put His love i' me, and naa owd Moses 'll never trouble ony on yo' ony more. Owd Moses lies i' Green Fold Lodge yonder, and he'll stop theer; it's time he wor done wi'. An' if you'll try me as God's baan to try me, aw think you'll happen larn to love me as I know I'm loved aboon.

Isn't your lightsome laugh, whin you wor young, in my ears? and your step that 'ud not bend the flower of the field Kathleen, I can't, indeed I can't, bear to think of what you wor, nor of what you are now, when in the coorse of age and natur, but a small change ought to be upon you! Sure I ought to make every struggle to take you and these sorrowful crathurs out of the state you're in."

After a silence of some minutes Enoch turned to Mr. Penrose and said: 'Jokin' aside, Mr. Penrose, that owd flute yo' yerd me playin' this afternoon is a part o' my life. Let's sit daan i' this nook and I'll tell yo' all abaat it. Three times in mi history it's bin mi salvation. Th' first wor when I lost mi brass. We lived daan at th' Brig then, and I ran th' factory.

And with all her force she endeavoured to wrench his hand away. He tore it from her, and hit out at her backwards a blow that sent her reeling against the wall. 'Yo take yer meddlin fist out o' that! he said. 'Father ain't comin, and if he wor, I 'spect I could manage the two on yer Keowntin it' he mimicked her. 'Oh! yer a precious innercent, ain't yer? But I know all about yer.