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Bill's idea was for me to take 'im ashore with me and tell 'im that Bill would join us arterwards, and then lose 'im; but I said that till I'd got my share I couldn't bear to lose sight o' Bill's honest face for 'alf a second. And, besides, Jimmy wouldn't 'ave gone. All the way up the river 'e stuck to Bill, and kept asking 'im wot we were to do.
We must lay the cloth arterwards. She then placed me in that same crevice overlooking the tarn whence Winnie had come to me on that morning. Knockers' Llyn, it will perhaps be remembered, is enclosed in a little gorge opening by a broken, ragged fissure at the back to the east. Leading to this opening there is on one side a narrow, jagged shelf which runs half-way round the pool.
Who ever sees their ole friends as is swallered up by the sea? Who ever heard of Alb Kennedy since he went ter Berling as he told us for to mike his fortune? Ho, a life on the oshun wave if yer like, but not for them as has bread and cheese ashore and a good bed to go to arterwards; that's what I shall say as long as I've breath in my body."
Meredith's. He sent us a ten, too." "Oh!" replied Colette frigidly. "Then the Boarder give us all he hed. Arterwards come dark days until Mr. Vedder sent us a fiver. Then thar was an orful day when thar wa'n't a cent and we didn't know whar to turn, and then It saved us." "It? What?" "The surplus. Mr. St. John's surplus. It brung in lots." "Why, what do you mean, Amarilly?"
"Well! now I've drinked," said Tom, after a vast potation, "now I've drinked good we'll have a bite and rest awhile, and smoke a pipe; and then we'll use them quail, and we'll have time to pick up twenty cock in Hell-hole arterwards, and that won't be a slow day's work, I reckon."
It was a good letter, because more than one gave 'im a hand with it, and there was little bits o' Scripture in it to make it more solemn-like. It was wrote on pink paper with pie-crust edges and put in a green envelope, and Bill Chambers said a man must 'ave a 'art of stone if that didn't touch it. Four months arterwards Henery Walker got an answer to 'is letter from 'is great-uncle.
Chickweed had been robbed by the devil, who was playing tricks with him arterwards; and the other half, that poor Mr. Chickweed had gone mad with grief. 'What did Jem Spyers say? inquired the doctor; who had returned to the room shortly after the commencement of the story.
Then he walked slowly back to his old seat in the chimney-corner, and, composing himself in it with a slight shiver, such as a man might give way to and so acquire an additional relish for the warm blaze, said, looking round upon his guests: 'It'll clear at eleven o'clock. No sooner and no later. Not before and not arterwards. 'How do you make out that? said a little man in the opposite corner.
'Yes: but the best of it was, the man on the pail proceeded, 'the best of it was, when ole Misery 'eard about the table, 'e was so bloody wild because 'e didn't get it 'imself that 'e went upstairs and pinched one of the venetian blinds and 'ad it took up to 'is own 'ouse by the boy, and a few days arterwards one of the carpenters 'ad to go and fix it up in 'is bedroom.
The fust I saw uv it, I thought somebody wuz sick in the house, to git 'em up thet time o' night; but arterwards we found out 't wan't nothin' but thar reggerlar way. When I told dad, sez I, 'Dad, did ever yer hear sech a thing uz gittin' up afore light to feed stock? 'n' ter feed theirselves tew.
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