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'Why, that was just what I thought, replied Lord Scamperdale, taking another tumbler of gin; 'that was just what I thought the fellow can ride, and we can't prevent him; and just as I settled that in my sleep, I thought I saw him come staring along, with his great brown horse's head in the air, and crash right a-top of old Lablache. But I see my way clearer with him now.
Accordingly, when they had run down a passage, and were confronted by a great gate, spiked a-top, Hogarth said: "I'll get up first", and, forcing the small end of the truncheon into the space at the hinges, he got foot-hold from which he caught the top hinge and scaled, a feat of which he considered Harris incapable; and, instead of helping him up, leapt down with a new feeling of lightness, hearing from the other side "Dastardly treachery...!"
Ay! he's by the big rock that shows his head when the tide runs low, but it's no mortal man who can steer long in the road he's journeying and not speedily find land wi' water a-top o't."
As for sleeping accommodation, it was aptly described by a Californian, who approached the captain, and said: "I should like to have a sleeping-berth, if you please." "Why, where have you been sleeping these last two nights since we left?" "Wa'al, I've been sleeping a-top of a sick man; but he's better now, and won't stand it no longer!" "I'se a carpenter, sah." "What kind of a carpenter?"
Michael French of Glare Abbey he's dead now, but he was alive enough at the time I'm telling you of, and kept the best house in county Clare well, he was coming down on the Limerick coach, and met a deuced pleasant, good-looking, talkative sort of a fellow a-top of it.
'tis a thousand pities that such musical owld crathurs should be suffered to die, at all at all, to be poked away into a dirthy dark hole, when their canthles shud be burnin' a-top of a bushel, givin' light to the house. An' then it is she that was the illigant dancer, stepping out so lively and frisky, just so." And here he minced to and fro, affecting the airs of a fine lady.
Now my time's too vally'ble; my professhun's too high-toned to WORK mines. I MAKE 'em. Hand me over a check for ten millions and call it square, and work it for yourself. So Capital hands over the money and waltzes down to run the mine, and you original locators walks round with yer hands in yer pockets a-top of your six million profit, and you let's Capital take the work and the responsibility."
I certainly saw you; and if I did see you, it was a-top of your own.
Presently Hyde joined us, then came Granville, and we filed back to camp, where "Doc" told his story: "Boys, them dogs' eyes shined like new money. Coaly fit agin, all right, and got his tail bit. The bear div down into a sink-hole with the dogs a-top o' him. Soon's I could shoot without hittin' a dog, I let him have it. Thought I'd shot him through the head, but he fit on.
Sputtering with wrath the postilion cursed me and demanded to know what I meant by sitting a-top when travelers wished to pass through. I assumed the vacant grin that rustics wear, and said: "The toll be tuppence, measter." "Here it is," says the man, flinging the coins on the ground, "and be hanged to you." "Be quick about it," roared the postilion after me.
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