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"Hold tight, darlint," came a voice from the outside, and the next instant Tom Grogan strode in, her face aglow with laughter, her hood awry, her eyes beaming. Patsy was perched on her shoulder, his little crutch fast in one hand, the other tightly wound about her neck. "Let go, darlint; ye're a-chokin' the wind out of me." "Oh, it's ye a-waitin', Mr. Babcock me man Carl thought ye'd gone. Mr.
And then agin he brung up the utter worthlessness, and shiftlessness, and viciousness of the class I wuz a-talkin' about. And then I sez "How is anybody a-goin' to live pattern lives, when they are a-starvin' to death? And how is anybody a-goin' to enjoy religion when they are a-chokin'?"
It would be worth five sovereigns to you, my man that little trip." George Wick looked interested, but shook his head. "It bes a bad coast, sir," he said, "an' clean unbeknownst to me. An' now it would be desperate, sir, what wid the ice a-chokin' all the little coves so ye couldn't run in from a squall o' wind, sir."
"If ye 're Injun," he ventured at last gravely, "then I 'm a bloody ghost; but if by any chance ye 're the lad, Wayland, which yer voice sounds like, then it's Ol' Tom Burns as ye 're a-maulin' 'round, which seems ter be yer specialty, a-jumpin' on unoffensive settlers in the dark, an' a-chokin' the life outer them."
It had proved, however, but an inferior defense against the onslaught of the younger man in his frantic efforts to save his own neck. They looked at each other in panting amazement, until the older man recovered his breath, and spoke: "Gosh and all beeswax! The Wild Ram of the Mountains a-settin' on the Lute of the Holy Ghost's stomach a-chokin' him to death. My sakes!
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