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"Why, afore he gat aat at station yard, he goes up to a man and says, 'Can yo' tell me th' way t' th' New Connexion Chapel? Naa," he added, looking across at his friend; "if yo' want th' roight soort, yo' mun breed um yoursens;" a saying which, put into other words, simply means that if we are to have reliable members in the Church, pious parents must bring in their own children, and let them grow up in the fear of the Lord and love of His people, and the maxim is correct.
"A'm no' so fond o' th' new style," he said; "the detective stoory is verra guid in its way for hame consumption, but A' prefair the mair preemative discreeptions, of how that grand mon, Deadwood Dick, foiled the machinations of Black Peter, the Scoorge of Hell Cañon. A've no soort o' use for the new kind o' stoory the love-stoories aboot mooney.
Holgate, being excited, was in a fit state to tell the truth, if he knew it; which was what Dicky had worked for; but Holgate only said: "It bean't fear, and it bean't milk o' human kindness. It be soort o' thing a man gets. Aw had it once i' Bradford, in Little Cornish Street.
So wid that Bonypart pushes up his cocked hat, and begins scratching his head, and thinning and considherin' for the bare life, and at last says he to the gineral: 'Gineral Commandher iv all the Foorces, says he, 'I've hot it, says he: 'ordher out the forlorn hope, says he, 'an' give them as much powdher, both glazed and blasting, says he, 'an' as much bullets do ye mind, an' swan-dhrops an' chain-shot, says he, 'an' all soorts iv waipons an' combustables as they can carry; an' let them surround Bill Malowney, says he, 'an' if they can get any soort iv an advantage, says he, 'let them knock him to smithereens, says he, 'an' then take him presner, says he; 'an' tell all the bandmen iv the Frinch army, says he, 'to play up "Garryowen," to keep up their sperits, says he, 'all the time they're advancin'. An' you may promise them anything you like in my name, says he; for, by my sowl, I don't think its many iv them 'ill come back to throuble us, says he, winkin' at him.
"Nay, nay, nay," he cried, "no one would do owt o' the soort, lad. Nay, nay, nay." "Ah, well, I don't know!" cried Dick. "All I know is that the stacks were burnt." "Weer they, lad?" "Yes, and the stables." Dave made a clucking noise with his tongue. "And the house had a narrow escape." "No; the house is right all but one room." "Eh, bud I'm straange and glad o' that, lad.
He was no sooner admitted among them, than he began to exercise his talents in prayer-meetings, and although he sometimes got confused in his utterances, he didn't care much, for he used to say, "Th' Lord knows what I mean, and He can soort th' words, and put 'em in their roight places; bless Him, He can read upsoide daan, or insoide aat."
Holgate, being excited, was in a fit state to tell the truth, if he knew it; which was what Dicky had worked for; but Holgate only said: "It bean't fear, and it bean't milk o' human kindness. It be soort o' thing a man gets. Aw had it once i' Bradford, in Little Cornish Street.
"Theer's them as pets the back to humble the belly, and theer's them as pets the belly to humble the back," he said, rubbing his bristly chin on a rung of the ladder as he spoke. "What soort o' comfort is theer in a laced wescut, if a man's got nothing to stretch it out with?" "Well, well, Joseph," returned the earl, "sixpence a day is a great deal of money.
Ye ken the soort: Harild is feelin' fine an' anxious aboot Lady Gwendoline's bairthmark: is she the rechtfu' heir? Oh, Heaven help me to solve the meestry! Tam was out one fine spring afternoon in a one-seater Morane. He was on guard watching over the welfare of two "spotters" who were correcting the fire of a "grandmother" battery.
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