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I ain't got no kind o' patience with them mush hearts who say that Ameriky belongs to the noble red man an' that the whites have no right to bargain fer his land. Gol ding their pictur's! Ye might as well say that we hain't no right in the woods 'cause a lot o' bears an' painters got there fust, which I ain't a-sayin' but what bears an' painters has their rights." Mr.
Eay! but tha tho't to fool mea, did tha, lass? Whoy, I knoawed tha voice, for a' tha foine peacock feathers. So tha be John's gell coom from Ameriky. Dear! a dear! Coom neaur, lass! let's see what tha's loike. Eh, but thou'lt kiss tha grandfather, sewerly?" A wild terror and undefined consternation had completely overpowered her!
"Och, there's more beggars between here and Queenstown than you 'd find in the whole of Ameriky." It seemed to Nora as if her purseful of money were warm against her breast, like another heart; the sixpences in her pocket all felt warm to her fingers and hopped by themselves into the pleading hands that were stretched out all along the way.
'But they're a deep set, they'll be here before we know where we are, some of these days. 'See thee here! said Daniel, exhibiting his maimed hand; 'a reckon a served 'em out time o' t' Ameriky war. And he began the story Sylvia knew so well; for her father never made a new acquaintance but what he told him of his self-mutilation to escape the press-gang.
Who would be thinkin' tin years ago that Professor Jocolino would be comin' t' Ameriky with one hundred fleas, not crude, in his dress-suit portmanteau? But th' Congress was th' boy t' think of everything. 'No free fleas! says they. 'Look at th' poor American flea, crude an' uneducated, an' see th' struggle it has, competin' with th' flea of Europe, Asia, an' Africa.
In the very midst of them, Gavin said: "What did the cratur mean when he spoke aboot 'mixed metaphors'? I never heard tell o' them before." "I'm not very sure," answered Andrew, cautiously; "he must have meant something." "'Mixed metaphors," mused Gavin, "an' the body wadna tak onythin'; it'll be somethin' they tak in Ameriky I'll ask Ronnie." Now Ronnie was the bartender!
She fixed her eyes upon the victim of her husband's extortion, and in an instant they were filled with tears. "What did I do," said the latter, "but strive to recover my own? How could I afford to lose forty pounds? An' I was tould for sartin that your father knew Grehan was goin' to Ameriky when he got him to go security.
'So you've found your way back again, have ye? he says. 'Why, I thought you was all on your way to Californy by this time. Ain't this Christmas week? Why, I was expecting to come over to Ameriky myself one of these days, when all the derry was over Why, what's up with the boy?
Were two of these fellows to take it into their heads to close upon us, our little craft would be crushed like nuts in the crackers!" "We must keep a good look-out for that. Here seems to be a long bit of open passage ahead of us, and it leads as near north as we can wish to run. If we can only get to the other end of it, I shall feel as if half our passage back to Ameriky was made."
Fine country, that! Blast Ameriky, I say!" To tell the truth, this Larry dealt in some illiberal insinuations against civilization. "And what's the use of bein' snivelized!" said he to me one night during our watch on deck; "snivelized chaps only learns the way to take on 'bout life, and snivel.
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