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'What made you trick me like this? Where is the money I gave you for the funeral? 'That's werry true, about that money, an' where is it? The orkerdest question about money allus is "Where is it?" The money for that funeral I 'ad, I won't deny that. The orkard question ain't that: it's "Where is it?"
'Very orkard indeed. "'Orkard ! he ses; 'it's no name for it, Bill. I might as well be a Sunday-school teacher, and ha' done with it. I never 'ad such a dull time in all my life. Never. And the worst of it is, it's spiling my temper. And all because o' that narrer-eyed, red-chested you know wot I mean! "He took another mouthful o' beer, and then he took 'old of my arm.
My people are a trifle orkard to deal with at first, but I guess they'll all pull together first-rate arter a while." The cabin of the Albatross was a much larger apartment than one would have expected to find in a craft of her size.
"Well, it'll be my turn to laugh to-morrow night. We'll see whether she can shake me off agin." Ted looked at 'im a bit worried. "It's a bit orkard," he ses, speaking very slow. "You see, they made it up arterwards, and then they both made me promise not to tell you, and if you come, they'll know I 'ave." Charlie did a bit o' thinking. "Not if I pretend to make love to Mrs.
"Is he much hurt?" "I'm afraid he's killed, Miss. I found him, He'd been out all night and the side of his head all busted. After a dingo he was I seen the tracks. Coming back from Gavan Blake's he must 'a' seen the dorg off the track, and the colt he was on was orkard like and must have hit him agen a tree.
Ef he ran off on account of only two hundred and fifty dollars he ain't goin' to run back again for the mere matter o' your marrying Joan. Ef he had he'd a done it afore this. It's orkard ez I said but the only orkardness is your feelin's. I reckon Joan's got used to hers." Demorest had risen angrily to his feet.
"He took hold o' my 'and and shook it. 'You've got more sense than one 'ud think to look at you, Bill, he ses, not thinking wot he was saying. 'You see wot a mess I'm in. "'Yes, I ses. "'I'm a nurse, that's wot I am, he ses, very savage. 'Just a nursemaid. I can't move 'and or foot without that gal. 'Ow'd you like it, yourself, Bill? "'It must be very orkard for you, I ses.
"That's a bit orkard," ses Sam, scratching his 'ead. "Same time, it don't do to throw away a chance. If 'e was my uncle I should pretend to be a teetotaller while 'e was here, just to please 'im." "And when you felt like a drink, Peter," ses Ginger, "me and Sam would look arter 'im while you slipped off to get it." "He could 'ave the room below us," ses Sam. "It is empty." Peter gave a sniff.
All because I told 'im the truth one day when he was thinking of getting married. Being a bit uneasy-like in his mind, he asked me 'ow, supposing I was a gal, his looks would strike me. It was an orkard question, and I told him that he 'ad got a good 'art and that no man could 'ave a better pal. I said he 'ad got a good temper and was free with 'is money.
'Very orkard indeed. "'Orkard! he ses; 'it's no name for it, Bill. I might as well be a Sunday-school teacher, and ha' done with it. I never 'ad such a dull time in all my life. Never. And the worst of it is, it's spiling my temper. And all because o' that narrer-eyed, red-chested you know wot I mean! "He took another mouthful o' beer, and then he took 'old of my arm.
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