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His eyes twinkled and he rewarded himself with a generous pinch of snuff before repeating his bon mot: "If you don't tell her she'll make some man a good wife, maybe she won't never know it! Looker out, Prudence! A-choon!" A house plant brought out into the May sunshine and air expands almost immediately under the rejuvenating influences of improved conditions.
"Well, I cal'late he would be hard to beat, even here on the Cape," agreed the inquisitive old man. He took a pinch of snuff and prepared to enjoy it. Suddenly remembering his wife's nervousness, he shouted in a high key: "Looker out Prue! A-choon!" "Good Well, ye did warn me that time, Ira, for a fact.
His mighty "A-choon!" startled the Queen of Sheba almost as it startled Prudence. "Avast!" exclaimed Cap'n Ira. "Did you ever see such a scary old lubber, Tunis?" "But what's it all about?" again demanded the younger man, seizing the rope halter and aiding the mare to flounder out upon the firmer sand below high-water mark. "What are you doing up so early?
Ira took a pinch of snuff, inhaled it, closed the cover of the box, delicately brushed a few flecks of the pungent powder from his coat lapel and shirt front, and then, burying his nose in a large silk handkerchief, vented a prodigious: "A-choon!"
Inside he could hear the bustle of Sheila's swift feet, the croon of Prudence's gentle voice, and then a mighty "A-choon!" as Cap'n Ira relieved his pent-up feelings. "Don't let them fish cakes burn, gal," the old man drawled. "If Tunis ain't here mighty quick he can eat his cold. Oh! Here he is right to the nick o' time, like the second mate's watch comin' to breakfast."
"I'd got into the way of thinking," remarked Cap'n Ball dryly, "that most folks 'ceptin' John-Ed and his wife had got the notion we'd dried up here, Prue and me, and blowed away. Some of 'em ain't never come near in six months. I swan!" "Now, Ira," admonished his wife, "do have charity." "Charity? Huh! I'll take a pinch of snuff instead. That's a warnin', Prudence! A-choon!"
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