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I had better sleep, I think, said Bradley, without changing his position. 'I myself should recommend it, governor, assented Riderhood. 'Might you be anyways dry? 'Yes. I should like a drink, said Bradley; but without appearing to attend much. Mr Riderhood got out his bottle, and fetched his jug-full of water, and administered a potation.
To you I leave her." "Ha, ha! No, you don't! It's only to her you leave me. Old boy, promise me! If you ever come back and she's still in the ring, you'll go for her again no matter who else is bidding, your humble servant not excepted." "Why yes I I promise that. Now, will you promise me?" "What! let myself ?" "Yes." "Ho-o, not by a jug-full!
They took possession of the town, and went into the mercantile business. From soldiers, they were soon turned into merchants, and opened stores on their own account. Soon all were loaded with watches, jewelry, boots, shoes, hats, clothing, etc., besides a certain other article which we wouldn't mention by a jug-full.
Well, Rumsey gave him one of his crack rooms panes of glass in the window, imitation mahogany chamber-set, pitcher of water on the washstand, all complete. Do you suppose that was good enough for old Money-Bags? Not by a jug-full. He owned the earth, he'd have you to know, and he wasn't going to put up with anything short of the Murray Hill! Nothing suited.
The joy of skimming a jug-full of cream mitigated the anguish felt for the loss of the pies, and Asia's despised cake proved a treasure in the way of dessert. "That is the nicest lunch I ever had; can't I do it every day?" asked Daisy as she scraped up and ate the leavings all round.
But the old Wabash ain't runnin "wine and milk and honey" not by the jug-full. It seems to be compounded of aquil parts of mud, crude ile, and rain water. If 'twas only runnin' Melwood, be gorry, Chickie, you'd see a mermaid named Jimmy Malone sittin' on the Kingfisher Stump, combin' its auburn hair with a breeze, and scoopin' whiskey down its gullet with its tail fin.
"Never rid her with any other boss, but know she can trot faster than any thing you can find here; so you may as well back out at once," answered Bart, with apparent indifference. "Not by a jug-full, sir; but I must look me up a horse, and fix matters a little first; and then, if it is thought safe for me to trust you to ride, I'll go it," returned the other, with some hesitation.
"No, he isn't, by a jug-full barring the jug must be well-nigh empty, and the divil save the jug, inny-how; but not until it's impty." "Where Mr. Harvey go, if not in cabin?" asked the savage, betraying a suspicious eagerness that would have been observed by Teddy upon any other occasion. "To the village, that he may preach and hould converse wid 'em.
In an instant her eye took in everything, and she readily comprehended the whole. "It isn't my doings, by a jug-full!" whispered John Jr., himself reddening as he noted the different articles of furniture which had never before seemed so meager and poor. On the humble bed, in a half-upright position, lay Mrs. Nichols, white as the snowy cap-border which shaded her face.
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