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"Ef troubles git in our way we kin shoot 'em out uv it," said Long Jim philosophically. "So we can," said Henry, "but there goes one of the owls again, and it's much nearer to us than it was before." "An' thar's the other answerin' from the other side," said Shif'less Sol, "an' it, too, is much nearer."
She's answerin': 'You ought to know. Examine own paintwork. Oh, Lord! they're both on to it now. This is balm. This is beginning to be balm. I forgive you, Morgan!" Two frantic pipes twittered. From either cruiser a whaler dropped into the water and madly rowed round the ship: as a gay-coloured hoist rose to the Cryptic's yardarm: "Destroyer will close at once. Wish to speak by semaphore."
I'm thinkin' He'd a' found a way afore now if th' mail boat had been makin' another trip before th' freeze up." "I'm lackin' in faith, I'm fearin'. I'm always forgettin' that th' Lard does what's best for us an' don't always do un th' way we wants He to. He's bidin' His own time I'm thinkin', an' answerin' my prayers th' way as is best."
She s'posed, o' course, that it was the men who had tackled the storm in the hope o' savin' some o' the cattle, an' she ran out o' the door to give 'em an answerin' hail so as they could git an idee as to the direction o' the house.
"Love-o'-Women stud still in the sun widout answerin'. Thin he groaned an' coughed to wanst, an' I thought 'twas the death- rattle, but he niver tuk his eyes off her face not for a wink. Ye cud ha' put her eyelashes through the flies av an E. P. tent, they were so long.
It was so distant that he could not have seen it had he not been looking for it, but when he pointed it out the Panther ceased to whirl his own torch. "It's some friends," he said, "an' they're answerin'. They're sayin' that they've seen us an' that they're waitin'. When they get through we'll say that we understan' an' are comin'." The whirling torch on the horizon stopped presently.
Yes, yes axin' your pardon for not answerin' right off I am one o' the Bounty mutineers; the last one John Smith once, better known now as John Adams. But where do you hail from, friend?"
The first any way lively interest he ever seemed to take in religious services was at the 'Piscopals, Easter Sunday. When he seen the lilies an' the candles he thess clapped his little hands, an' time the folks commenced answerin' back he was tickled all but to death, an' started answerin' hisself on'y, of co'se he 'd answer sort o' hit an' miss.
The door was opened unceremoniously and a girl thrust in her head. Laura had made acquaintance with her the night before. She was the housekeeper's underling and niece. "Mrs. Denton says I'm not to stop. She's noa time for answerin bells. And you'll have some hot water when t' kettle boils." The door was just shutting again when Laura sprang at the speaker and caught her by the arm.
And when I ain't takin' cards into the main squeezes, or answerin' fool questions over the 'phone, or chasin' out on errands for Piddie, I'm swallowin' chunks of information about the times when G. Wash. was buildin' forts in Harlem and makin' good for a continuous in front of the Subtreasury. Course, it's a clean waste of time.
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