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He dressed 'imself up very slow and careful in Peter's clothes, and then 'e drove 'em nearly crazy by wasting time making 'is bed. "Be as quick as you can, Isaac," ses Ginger, at last; "think of us two a-sitting 'ere waiting for you." "I sha'n't forget it," ses Isaac, and 'e came back to the door after 'e'd gone arf-way down the stairs to ask 'em not to go out on the drink while 'e was away.

And then the doctor came and looked at him, and said as he couldn't do nothing, and that night he died as I was a-sitting by his bed; and I can tell you that, with one thing and another, we lost money by him, for the few bits of clothes as he had were worth next to nothing when they came to be sold. "I gave the woman half a sovereign for her trouble, and went home thinking of Dr.

The moment she heard Toby's bark she changed her walk to a quick run and threw herself down beside Cecile with an easy hail-fellow-well-met manner. "Well, you're a queer un, you ere," she said, looking up pertly in Cecile's face, "a-hugging of that big dawg, and a-sitting on the church steps of St. Stephen's on the werry bitterest evening that has come this year yet.

"I've got us out o' reach o' that pig o' ballast." "But, Tom," cried Mark, excitedly, "what does it mean? Where's Mr Russell?" "Somewheres underneath you, sir. I think you're a-sitting on him." "There's someone lying here," cried Mark. "Yes, sir, several someuns," said Tom Fillot. "Oh, my poor head!" "But you don't tell me what it all means," cried Mark, angrily.

There may be a bit of a reckoning against Jem for the matter of a hare or so, if anybody was bound to keep their eyes staring open, and niver to wink; but Jem's been a-sitting here drinking his can, like the decentest man i' the parish, since before you left your house, Master Marner, by your own account." "Aye, aye," said Mr. Macey; "let's have no accusing o' the innicent. That isn't the law.

"I know no more than a babe unborn," declared Mr. Wilks. "The last I see of the cap'n 'e was a-sitting at this table opposite you." "Sam wouldn't hurt a fly," said Miss Nugent, with a kind glance at her favourite. "Well, where is the governor, then?" inquired her brother. "Why didn't he go home last night? He has never stayed out before." "Yes, he has," said Mrs.

'But the tune ISN'T his own invention, she said to herself: 'it's "I GIVE THEE ALL, I CAN NO MORE." She stood and listened very attentively, but no tears came into her eyes. 'I'll tell thee everything I can; There's little to relate. I saw an aged aged man, A-sitting on a gate. "Who are you, aged man?" I said, "and how is it you live?"

As you know, that there waterfall takes a lot of reaching, but I gets there at last, and there he was a-sitting in the stream. Lord, I 'ardly knew 'im, he looked so young and vigorous, and full o' life. He wanted me to bathe, but I'd had a wash on'y a day or two before, and I wouldn't.

Harper told about Joe scaring her with a firecracker, and you told about Peter and the Painkiller " "Just as true as I live!" "And then there was a whole lot of talk 'bout dragging the river for us, and 'bout having the funeral Sunday, and then you and old Miss Harper hugged and cried, and she went." "It happened just so! It happened just so, as sure as I'm a-sitting in these very tracks.

But one day as I sate i' th' kitchen, a-cosseting o' my lame arm as though 't had been a babe, I hear a sound o' wheels and a clatter o' horses' hoofs; and, lo! there be a chariot pulled up afore the door, with four gray horses a-making play with their trappings, and a coachman, all wig and gilding, a-sitting on th' box.

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