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"I'd never a-left him," said Jonesy, "but the boss said it 'ud only be a little while and we'd make so much money showin' the bear that I'd have a whole pile to take home. I could ride back on the cars and take a whole trunk full of nice things to Barney, clothes, and candy, and a swell watch and chain, and a bustin' beauty of a bike.
And Hill, and the little Mexican with him, just roared. When Hill could talk for laughing, he went on: "I'll own up right now, boys, I was extry over-precautious when I fixed up with empty shells that gun-shop Hart's nephew took along on the coach when he started out with it. For all the harm he done with them guns, I might just as well a-left 'em loaded the usual way.
They'd taken 'em all, hadn't been for me and another fellow who stood over them with a gun." The Bum Actor raised his eyes. "What happened then?" he asked in a nervous voice. "Oh, we pitched in and righted things and got into port at last. But the Captain was no good; he'd a-left with the crew if we'd let him." "Is the shifting of a cargo a serious matter?" continued the Actor.
John resolved to attend to the other all the more scrupulously; and went straight from the lawyer to the kitchen, where Hester stood by the window scouring a copper pan. "Look here," he said, "the old man hasn' left you nothing." "No?" said Hester. "Well, I didn't expect anything." And she went on with her scouring. "But he've a-left a pretty plain hint o' what he wants me to do."
"That'd be more business than I've a mind for, Rogers," answered Captain Cai; "at any rate, while you live. I've a-left my affairs to you these twelve year, an' mean to continue, please God you knowin' my ways." The chandler blinked. "That's very han'some o' ye, Cap'n," he said after a long pause. "But "
"The clock!" exclaimed Susan, with an indignant start, "why that there clock have hung over chimney-piece for nigh upon farty year! That clock didn't belong to Abel!" "That clock," said Jenny with mild firmness, "did belong to my poor Abel's father, and 'twas his by rights; he've a-left it to me wi' the rest of his things, and I shall value it for his sake.
"Come a-left, come a-right, Come yo' lily-white hand, Fo' to quile dat golden cha ain. O ladies caper light Sweetest ladies in de land NED FERRY's a-comin' down de la ane!" Cries of masculine anger and feminine affright filled the hall, but one ringing order for silence hushed all, and the dance stood still with Ned Ferry in its centre.
"That clock belonged to Abel," repeated Jenny emphatically, "and he've a-left it to me in his will." She drew a piece of paper from her pocket, opened it slowly, and proceeded to read its contents aloud, with great dignity. "'In case o' my death, I, Abel Guppy, bein' firm in mind and body " "What does he mean by that?" interrupted Betty.
"I do know 'ee better nor to think you'd have any sich nonsensical notions; you as be a widow man, and have a-buried sich a lovin' wife, what have a-left 'ee the darlingest little maid to keep. Us do want no step-mothers; us do want all the love, the wold mother and the little maid."
Baverstock, nor yet to Dick, but I shouldn't wonder at all if Tilly Ann was to follow her mother afore very long, pore little maid." "Ah! they do say as when a young mother be took like that, as often as not she'll keep on a-callin' and a-callin', till the pore little thing she've a-left behind fair withers away."
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