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Now then, all what's in favour o' my bein' gov'nor, walk to the end o' the room on my right hand, an' all who wants somebody else to be Spitfire, for instance walk over to where Dick Swan is a-sittin' enjo'in' of hisself." Immediately three-fourths of the crew stepped with alacrity to the right. The remainder went rather slowly to the left.
I hesitate to record the many other instances of his sagacity, which rest, unfortunately, upon the statements of prejudiced friends. Some of them were not without a tinge of superstition. "I crep' up the bank just now," said Kentuck one day, in a breathless state of excitement "and dern my skin if he was a-talking to a jay bird as was a-sittin' on his lap.
I was back in under a minute, and there was pore mother a-sittin' up in bed and a-smilin' at me as if all 'er troubles was past, and says she, 'Annie, she says, 'I've 'ad enough and I don't want no more, she says; 'it's killed the pain. And then she laid down in bed still smilin', and says she, 'You tell the doctor when 'e comes as I'm sorry to 'a' fetched 'im for nothin', but I couldn't wait . And if you'll believe me, Miss Olga, those was the last words she spoke."
But it's but a bit on a pathway now; an' t' one was too oud, an' t' other too young for t' see t' water comin' along wi' great leaps; it's allays for comin' high up again' t' cliff, an' this spring-tide it's comin' in i' terrible big waves. Some one said as they passed t' man a-sittin' on a bit on a rock up above a dunnot know, a only know as a heared a great fearful screech i' t' air.
Just as if I'd leave them two poor things ter come into this house alone, and all forlorn like that and me only a mile away, a-sittin' in my own parlor like as if I was a fine lady an' hadn't no heart at all, at all! Just as if the poor things hadn't enough ter stand without that a-comin' into this house an' the doctor gone bless his kind heart! an' never comin' back. An' no money, too.
Young Har is a unknown quantity, sir a will o' the wisp, or as you might say, a ignus fattus. At this pre-cise moment 'e may be in Jerusalem or Jericho or a-sittin' outside on the lawn which Gawd forbid! But there, don't let's talk of it. Come on down into the cellars, and we'll bring up enough port to drownd sorrer an' care all night." "With all my heart!" said Mr.
'N' me standin' pantin' for breath, 'n' related to 'em all!" Mrs. Lathrop's eyes grew bigger and bigger. "There was a old man a-sittin' on a chair on the porch in one boot 'n' one slipper 'n' a cane. He looked 't me 's if it 'd be nothin' but a joy to him to eat me up alive 'n' jus' relish to gnaw the bones afterwards. You c'n maybe realize, Mrs.
You did not hear that you were wanted before?" The watery eyes of the cabman protruded painfully; he respired like a horse. "ME, guv'nor!" he exclaimed. "Gor'blime! I ain't the bloke! I was drivin' back from takin' the Honorable 'Erbert 'Arding 'ome same as I does almost every night, when the 'ouse is a-sittin' when I see old Tom Brian drawin' away from the door o' Palace Man "
"No, sir, there ain't no ladies there, 'cept Miss Tabitha, onny some London gents, and Sir Morton, 'e flew into an orful passion like 'e do, sir, an' told us to leave off singin' and git out, 'Git off my ground, he 'ollers 'Git off! then jest as we was a gittin' off, he cools down suddint like, an' 'e sez, sez 'e: 'Take a note to the dam passon for me, an' bring a harnser, an' I'll give yer somethink when yer gits back. An' all the gents was a-sittin' at breakfast, with the winders wide open an' the smell of 'am an' eggs comin' through strong, an' they larfed fit to split theirselves, an' one on 'em tried to kiss Kitty Spruce, an' she spanked his face for 'im!"
"I often wonder how them white-faced fellows in the settlements manage to keep body and soul together a-sittin', as they do, all day in the house, and a-lyin' all night in a feather bed. For my part, rather than live as they do, I would cut my way up streams like them we've just passed every day and all day, and sleep on top of a flat rock o' nights, under the blue sky, all my life through."
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