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Updated: May 2, 2025
Either the U.P. would go beyond the limits of the Law and then I'd jump on it, suppress its papers, and clap it into quod or it'd take it lyin' down. Whichever 'appened it'd be all up with the U. P. I'd a broke its chain off my neck for good. But I ain't the Gover'ment, an Gover'ment's got tender feet.
"Eliza," he cried, without any pretense at smiling good humor, "you've been sneaking!" "Sneakin', you call it? I 'appened to pass your room, an' who could help lookin' in? I was never so taken aback in me life. You could ha' knocked me down with a feather." "An ostrich feather with an ostrich's leg behind it," was the angry retort. Eliza's eyes glinted with the fire of battle.
"I stepped out into the road and watched 'im out o' sight. Then I told Mrs. Pratt to pick up 'er bag and foller me. "As it 'appened there was a big pile of empties in the corner of the ware'ouse wall, just opposite the Eastern Monarch's berth.
'Nothing hash 'appened Shur, said O'Flaherty, whose articulation was affected a good deal, in terror lest the major should arrest his departure.
'I hope, said Uncle Solomon, 'that now you've had time to think over what 'appened yesterday afternoon, you'll see that you went too far in using the terms that fell from you, more particularly as the bird's as well as ever, from what I hear this morning? 'I don't wish to reopen that affair at present, said the other, stiffly.
"Wot's 'appened?" For one moment her sleepy brain confused him with the diabolical noise overhead. "Nothin'," he answered, "'cept that you must tumble out quick, you two. We're off Avonmouth, an' the whistle's goin' for the old man."
"Why, I've been looking for you everywhere, Mr. Walker," he ses. "I couldn't think wot had 'appened to you." "You needn't worry yourself, Bob," ses Henery Walker; "he's coming to live with me now." "Don't you believe it," ses Bob Pretty, taking hold of old Mr. Walker by the arm; "he's my lodger, and he's coming with me."
"I got up early the next arternoon, and as it 'appened, he came into the 'Duke of Edinburgh' five minutes arter I got there. Nasty temper 'e was in, too. He'd just found a meerschaum pipe, as usual, and the very fust man 'e tried to sell it to said that it was the one 'e lost last Christmas, and gave 'im a punch in the jaw for it. "'He's a thief, that's wot he is, ses 'Arry; 'and I 'ate thiefs.
I remember all this as clear as print, mates, remember it plain, but wot 'appened next ain't so good an' clear. Somethink seemed to bust in me 'ead. Only just before I went off, the winder there's only one in the room was smashed to smithereens an' somebody come in through it." "Are you sure?" said Harley eagerly. "Are you sure?"
"I done the best I could. Nothing could ha' 'appened better to start with. Directly Ted Brown and Joe Smith started, Mrs. Pretty and her sister, and all the kids excepting the baby, run out, and they'd 'ardly gone afore I was inside the back door and looking for that hamper, and I'd hardly started afore I heard them coming back agin.
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