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"Here's your health, Tommy," returned Bostock. "You'll make an A-one bake in the New Hebrides." "That's what I call talking," cried Tom, not perhaps grasping the spirit of this doubtful compliment. "Now you give me your attention.
Now let loose the dogs carry a pair of couples and a leash along with you; and mind you, gentlemen, Tim carries shot for all hands; and luncheon but each one finds his own powder, caps, &c.; and any one who wants a dram, carries his own the devil a-one of you gets a sup out of my bottle, or a charge out of my flask! That's right, old Trojan, isn't it?" with a good slap on Tom's broad shoulder.
Before we began the feast Samson, who seemed to be repentin' of his bet, took us a-one side an' says, `Now mind, says he, `I can't say exactly how he'll bu'st, or when he'll bu'st, or what sort of a bu'st he'll make of it. `Oh, never mind that, says we, laughin'. `We won't be par-tickler how he does it. If he bu'sts at all, in any fashion, we'll be satisfied, and admit that you've won.
"Dandy, isn't it?" he said, as he cast his eyes around. "She fixed it up. She's got great taste. See that mud sideboard? That's the real thing, A-one mud! None of your cheap rock about that. We fetched that mud for two miles to make that. And look at that wicker bucket. Isn't it great? Hardly leaks at all except through the sides, and perhaps a little through the bottom. She wove that.
The genuine contempt in that sharp burst of anger impressed the aged butler. "I'm not a-sayin' anything," he said; "it's all a-one to me. I never mixes up with no other people's business. But it's very ill-convenient. I don't get my proper breakfast. That poor woman she's half off her head. When the baby's buried I'll have to go and look out for another room before he gets a-comin' out."
To recompense "Westminister" for the loss of his day's work, to make a dubious statement that nights were never so black as they appeared to be, was all that he could venture to do. Creed hesitated in the doorway. "Oh dear," he said, "there's a-one thing that the woman was a-saying that I've forgot to tell you. It's a-concernin' of what this 'ere man was boastin' in his rage.
"Colonel," said the old man, "throw a little light on this nothingness." "No, Sir William," said the Colonel. "I am all right as I am." "As a matter of fact, so are we all, perfectly A-one," said Arthur. Aaron broke into a laugh. "That's the top and bottom of it," he laughed, flushed with wine, and handsome. We're all as right as ninepence. Only it's rather nice to talk."
Of co'se sech conduct ez that is worrisome, but I don't see no, to say, bad principle in it. Sonny ain't got a bad habit on earth, not a-one. They'll ever' one o' the teachers tell you that. He ain't never been knowed to lie, an' ez for improper language, why he wouldn't know how to select it. An' ez to tattlin' at home about what goes on in school, why, he never has did it.
Brill Healy leaned forward, gathered the eyes of those present, and lowered his voice to a whisper. "Boys, this thing has got to stop. I've sent for Bucky O'Connor. If anybody can run the coyotes to earth he can. Anyhow, that's the reputation he's got." Yeager nodded. "Good for you, Brill. He's ce'tainly got an A-one rep. as a cattle detective, and likewise as a man hunter. When is he coming?"
"Save you from what?" asked Lilly, rather abashed. "Eh ?" and Jim stooped, grinning at the smaller man. Lilly was somewhat puzzled, but he had a certain belief in himself as a saviour. The two men tramped rather incongruously through the lanes to the cottage. Tanny was in the doorway as they came up the garden path. "So nice to see you! Are you all right?" she said. "A-one!" said Jim, grinning.
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