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'Wery fresh, replied Sam; 'me and the two waiters at the Peacock has been a-pumpin' over the independent woters as supped there last night. 'Pumping over independent voters! exclaimed Mr. Pickwick. 'Yes, said his attendant, 'every man slept vere he fell down; we dragged 'em out, one by one, this mornin', and put 'em under the pump, and they're in reg'lar fine order now.
She minded her own business and he minded his. No, he didn't know nothin' more about it. What was I a-pumpin' him for, anyway? I gave up the "pumping" and hurried back to the rectory. There Hephzy told me a few additional facts. Frances had taken with her only the barest necessities, for the most part those which she had when she came to us.
They referred, of course, to the iceberg, the seams and especially the caverns in which graduated from the lightest azure to the deepest indigo. "Why, I do believe," continued Bobby, as the haze grew a little thinner, "that there's rivers of water runnin' down its sides, just like as if it was a mountain o' loaf-sugar wi' the fire-brigade a-pumpin' on it.
An' it didn't seem no time. Well, it's a-pumpin' now, Celestina." The mild face beamed with satisfaction, and Celestina had not the heart to cloud its brightness by annoying him further. "That's capital!" she declared. "Here's your bread an' butter, Willie. An' here's some apple turnovers fur you, an' Jan, an' Zenas Henry. They'll be nice fur you goin' along in the wagon."
Slick, "holdin' the high and dignified station I do, as Attache, they will be a-pumpin' me for everlastinly, will the great men here, and they think a plaguy sight more of our opinion than you are aware on; we have tried all them things they are a jawin' about here, and they naterally want to know the results.
Slick, "holdin' the high and dignified station I do, as Attache, they will be a-pumpin' me for everlastinly, will the great men here, and they think a plaguy sight more of our opinion than you are aware on; we have tried all them things they are a jawin' about here, and they naterally want to know the results.
Just afore she eh gits ter thet thick bunch eh underbrush, whar' the trail sorter eh drops down inter the ravine. An' you chumps wanter eh git yerselves up so she can't pipe any of ye off eh in this yere eh road-agent act. I tell ye, after what thet eh Moffat's bin a-pumpin' inter her, she's just got ter be eh rescued, an' in blame good style, er eh it ain't no go."
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