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Updated: May 6, 2025
"It's not the Danish gun-boat I'm afraid of; it's the fatherly English cruiser a-turning of us back." Darkness, however, found them unmolested. They crossed the three-mile limit at eight o'clock, and crept close in under the Danish headlands without a glimmer of light showing. "I want all hands all night," said Weeks; "and there's a couple of pounds for him as first see the bogey-man."
'Last night, said Sloppy, 'when I was a-turning at the wheel pretty late, the mangle seemed to go like Our Johnny's breathing. It begun beautiful, then as it went out it shook a little and got unsteady, then as it took the turn to come home it had a rattle-like and lumbered a bit, then it come smooth, and so it went on till I scarce know'd which was mangle and which was Our Johnny.
I couldn't sleep, and so I come along up-street 'bout midnight, a-turning it all over, and when I got to that old shackly brick store by the Temperance Tavern, I backed up agin the wall to have another think. Well, just then along comes these two chaps slipping along close by me, with something under their arm, and I reckoned they'd stole it.
I found him in his workroom, before a lathe, and sprinkled from head to toe with chips, mighty proud of a bed-post he was a-turning. A better man never lived, nor a more honest circumstances permitting. His joy at seeing me was past everything; but his first thought after our hearty greeting was of his daughter. "My Moll," says he, "my dear girl; you han't brought her to add to my joy?
Then, instinctively, she dropped on one knee, and before he had understood, or could stop her, had raised his hand to her lips. "Tide's a-turning, sir," said a voice at the open doorway of the cabin, and Captain Clubbe turned his impassive face toward Dormer Colville, who looked oddly white beneath the light of the lamp.
She was always a-turning round and round and round, and when she got to the gate she wouldn't go in but kept on a-turning and turning, until at last he got angry and, lifting his crook, gave her a crack on the head, and down she went, and he thought he'd killed her. But in a little while up she jumps and trotted straight into the fold, and from that time she were well.
Newsome needs the money, I am afraid he might not like to wait. It would be a year before I could see exactly how things succeed and that's a long time." "Yes, and it would mean for you to just be a-turning yourself into meat and drink for the family, nothing more or less, Rose Mary.
"You're no man, you ain't," the Virgin snarled, discovering that physical assault was not imminent. But Corliss herded her particularly to the door, and gave no heed. "A-turning ladies out!" she sniffed, with a stumble over the threshold; "No offence," Jake Cornell muttered, pacifically; "no offence." "Good-night.
If it were a ship or a flag, now, or a fancy pictur of your young man, I might manage it on your arm, but there must be breadth for a legal doccymint, more especially as I should like to make a good job of it while I is about it. I don't want none of them laryers a-turning up their noses at Bill Jones' tattooing."
"Well, Peter," answered old Joe, "I've bin a-turning of it over in my mind, and spite of his 'rageous conduct I dunno, after all, that it would be right to let him lie all night without a bite of something. Call Bob." This man, whose surname was Robins, arrived. Joe told him to get a lantern and cut a plate of beef and bread and mix a small mug of rum and water.
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