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"Yes, I was looking at them yesterday, and thinking how good they must be." "Nay, but they am't, Master Tom; that's just it. If you was to pick one o' they which would be a sin, sir and stick your teeth into it, you'd find it hard and tasting sappy like chewed leaves." "Why I thought they were ripe." "Nay, not them, sir. You want to take a pear, sir, just at the right moment."
'It's grand, lass, isn't it? 'Yi, Matt, it is forsure. 'And them hills they're awlus slumberin', am't they? Doesto know, I sometimes wish I could be as quiet as they are. They fret noan; weet or fine, it's all th' same to them. 'They're a bit o'er quiet for me, lad. I'd rather hev a tree misel. It tosses, thaa knows, and tews i' th' tempest, and laughs i' th' sunleet, and fades i' autumn.
Winthrop, one of the pioneers in the industry, writes: "The work was hard to accomplish for want of money, etc., but our shipwrights were content to take such pay as the country could make," and indeed in the old account books of the day we can read of very unusual payments made for labor, as shown, for example, in a contract for building a ship at Newburyport in 1141, by which the owners were bound to pay "£300 in cash, £300 by orders on good shops in Boston; two-thirds money; four hundred pounds by orders up the river for tim'r and plank, ten bbls. flour, 50 pounds weight of loaf sugar, one bagg of cotton wool, one hund. bushels of corn in the spring; one hhd. of Rum, one hundred weight of cheese * whole am't of price for vessel £3000 lawful money."
Total am't of collections credited,.....9,547,86 Leaving balance over-paid by him, .... $8,659,87 The trustees then gave Mr. Crane a bond for this balance, and a lease on the building, until this debt, with interest on it, could be paid.
"By the Power that made me!" exclaimed Boone, energetically; "a good thought, lad a good thought, Master Harry and we'll act on't at once, by sarching along the banks above here; for as the other varmints took off to the east, it am't improbable they've just steered a little round about, to come down on 'em, while these went right straight ahead."
"Are you tryin' to make a fool of me?" he half screamed. "Or can't you understand English? D'ye want me to keep on tellin' you till I'm hoarse that there ain't nobody goin' in with you, because you am't goin' in yourself! See? Understand that? There's nothing doin' to-night for anybody and that means you!" "Aw, shut up, Shluker!"
Now my pants cost eighty-five cents, s'penders fifteen, hat twenty, shoes one-fifty; stockin's I don't bother about." He had his brother at a disadvantage, and he grew fluent and caustic as he went on, almost changing places with Howard, who took the rake out of the boy's hands and followed, raking up the scatterings. "Singular we fellers here are discontented and mulish, am't it?
He bounded up the steps and took her in his arms. "Mother! Dear old Mother!" In the silence, almost painful, which followed, an angry woman's voice could be heard inside: "I don't care. I am't goin' to wear myself out fer him. He c'n eat out here with us, or else-" Mrs. McLane began speaking. "Oh, I've longed to see yeh, Howard. I was afraid you wouldn't come till-too late."
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