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"Yes, but how about running out into that storm again, eh, Bumpus? Feel like going through another experience like that?" demanded Giraffe. "Not any for me, thank you. Thad, I say, do what he tells us. He can't eat us, I reckon; and we ain't got any reason to be afraid because of anything we've done."
And when I see 'im I'm going to put my arms round 'im and twist 'is neck; then I'm going to break every bone in 'is body, and arter that I'm going to shy 'im overboard to pison the fishes with. "'Dear me! ses Uncle Dick, shifting away as far as 'e could. "'I ain't 'ad a wink o' sleep for two nights, ses 'Arry 'not ever since I 'eard of it.
I know it 's a darned shame to get you out at this hour." "Tut, tut, man. If a friend can't get up for another friend, he ain't much of a friend. Tell your troubles." "I 'm looking for a man, Beefy, who 's down there somewhere among your Chinks." "Hitting the pipe?" "I 'm afraid so." "Have n't any address I suppose don't know his favorite joint?"
And now I'll tell you what, lad: if the young man is fit to be moved when you go back, you just bring him down here to the cottage, I mean and it shan't cost him a ha'penny. I've a bit of a nest-egg as ain't chalk nor yet china; and Jessie is going to be well married; and who knows but the place may suit him as it did his sister! You look to it when you get home." "I will indeed, grandfather!
I sat telling them of my adventures and answering questions, flattered by their tender interest, until milking time. I thoroughly enjoyed all that. When I rose to go out with Uncle Peabody, Aunt Deel demanded my shoes. "Take 'em right off," said she. "It ain't a goin' to do to wear 'em common no, sir-ee! They're for meetin' or when company comes ayes!"
I said, 'Alla, you certainly are no piker. You'll go out and mace a good fellow for a big feed just as if he was a John. Now, that ain't right. When you are out with a James go to it and eat your head off. But when you are out with some one in the business or a newspaper man be circumscribe.
"That's where you are mistaken," sobbed Peace forlornly, though her eyes flashed with indignation as she wiped away her tears. "It's you which has got her mind made up, and you and me ain't the same people. I just can't seem to make those words stick, and I might as well give up trying right now." "You will have that poem perfectly learned tomorrow afternoon, or I shall know the reason why."
I believe, Sir Thomas, that you have the pleasure of some slight acquaintance with my father, Mr. Matthew Mollett?" What a pleasure under such circumstances! Sir Thomas, however, nodded his head, and Aby went on. "Well, now, Sir Thomas, business is business; and my father, 'e ain't a good man of business. A gen'leman like you, Sir Thomas, has seen that with 'alf an eye, I know."
Here they be, Miss Marshay fer yer. Giminy, teacher, ain't them purty? An' O, teacher He made 'm in the fust place 'n had the man guv them to me, 'n so I reckon He 'n me's pardners in this here white gift bizness." And he held up in his thin, grimy hand a bunch of white, sweet-scented violets.
Something was evidently floating there, and he made for it, to find to his great joy that it was the floating box, which he pushed before him as he swam, and a couple of minutes later he was near enough to the edge on the meadow-side to ask Bob's help. "Ain't got 'em, have you?" the latter whispered. "Yes; all right. I'll come out there. Give me a hand."
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