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His house, too, had drawn not a little on his capital his capital of strength, skill, and perseverance but he grudged neither time nor labor in making it the best in Oa. For a house is an important matter to a family man, even if it weren't a paying thing like vanillar, nor capable of helping a fellar along like a cow or a boat.
The very night after Donald left there was a husking bee at Big Archie Red McDonald's in the Oa, and as he sat down in the long, noisy row of boys and girls and helped to fill the barn with laughter and dust, he found himself next to Jessie. He had never seen her look prettier, and she had never found him more entertaining.
By George! everybody in Oa Bay was safe so long as they didn't try to make a fight of it; and he could have laughed to see the terrified women scooting for the church, the children bawling at their heels. The fools, what had they to fear? American officers were not the kind to fire on women and children, nor were they likely to look on mum-chance, and let the lime-juicers do it neither.
He must not pay attention to any particular young lady, and yet he must dance attendance upon all; he must have the gift of tongues in the Oa and an Irish brogue in the Flats. And just when he was pleasing the party he felt to be the most influential, and to him the most congenial, they must turn upon him and rend him for the very qualities they most admired in him!
"Now, we'll drive you clean back to Lakeview, if you don't speak up smart and say you'll take it!" she cried. But Coonie did not mind. Mr. Basketful was by this time in the middle of the road, so he prolonged the encounter as long as possible. "Go ahead," he said, settling himself comfortably in his seat; "you'll soon be at the Oa, if you keep on.
"They never taught you the Gaelic, though. Man, the Oa folk would a' been pleased if ye could speak it." The young man raised his eyebrows with a comical affectation of despair. "Don't I wish I could!" he exclaimed. "But I'm not so ignorant as they think. I know more than ten words of Gaelic. You fellows from the Oa remember to tell that!" There was a hearty laugh round the table.
When seen in the heavens it is named "motse oa barimo" the pestle of the gods. Here they could approach the emblem, and see it stand steadily above the blustering uproar below a type of Him who sits supreme alone unchangeable, though ruling over all changing things. But, not aware of His true character, they had no admiration of the beautiful and good in their bosoms.
Egerton preached a very clever and caustic sermon that Sabbath upon narrow-mindedness, and Duncan Polite's face was drawn with pain as he listened. On Monday evening, the night before the final and crucial meeting the young minister was walking briskly down the road from the Oa.
She gave me a drink out of a china mug wi' gold letters "A Present from Leeds" as I looked at many and many a time at after. "Yo're to lie still while Dr. Warbottom comes, because your arm's broken, and father has sent a lad to fetch him. He found yo' when he was goin' to work, an' carried you here on his back," sez she. "Oa!" sez I; an' I shet my eyes, for I felt ashamed o' mysen.
Besides this establishment, a second, on a smaller scale, also made its appearance in our neighbourhood, consisting of a very little man, named Koo-il-li-ti-uk, nicknamed by the sailors "John Bull," and his pretty little wife Arnal=o=oa, whose zeal in bringing up her husband's share of the seahorses I have before described.
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