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Set me down on any of their quays or foreshores, and I am home again. 'I suppose you go great voyages, said the Water Rat with growing interest. 'Months and months out of sight of land, and provisions running short, and allowanced as to water, and your mind communing with the mighty ocean, and all that sort of thing? 'By no means, said the Sea Rat frankly.
It had been sold for twelve dollars, part to be paid in cash, part in potatoes; the potatoes were nearly exhausted, and they were allowanced to so many a day. But the six dollars she had retained as their last resource. Alas! she had sent the eldest boy the day before to P , to get a letter out of the post-office, which she hoped contained some tidings of her husband and son.
"Can you, old man? Come, sit down here, an' let's have it then," said Thorley. "Jack was an old messmate o' mine. What'll you take to drink, mate?" "Nothing, thankee. I'm allowanced by the doctor even in the matter o' tea and coffee," said the sergeant. "As to bein' an' old man well, I ain't much older than yourself, I daresay, though wounds and sickness and physic are apt to age a man in looks."
When we make money, we invest it in land." Further, I was told that tea, coffee, and sugar are roughly allowanced to each family. Each family has either a house, or apartments in one of the large houses. Each has a garden patch, and keeps chickens; and every year a number of pigs are set apart for each household, according to its number.
The little creature was fetched out of his haunts in London purposely to soothe my father with performances on his ancient clarionet, a most querulous plaintive instrument in his discoursing, almost the length of himself; and she endured the nightly sound of it in the guest's blue bedroom, heroically patient, a model to me. Bagenhope drank drams: she allowanced him.
"You've been helped once to meat," said Miss Brass, summing up the facts; "you have had as much as you can eat: you're asked if you want any more, and you answer 'No. Then don't you ever go and say you were allowanced, mind that!" With those words, Miss Sally put the meat away, locked the meat-safe, and then overlooked the small servant while she finished the potatoes.
May I go on?" he asked. "Oh yes," I answered, taken by surprise. "I suppose so. It is a relief to talk, and to listen, I have told you, is my vocation." "How long can you listen?" he questioned in delighted eagerness. I fancied he would have to be allowanced, and I held up my paper pattern before me: "This bouquet of flowers is to be transferred. I will give you all the time it will take to do it.
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