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My grandson took first prize last year, and his old grandad had to put up with eleventh; but I've got half a dozen leeks this season as'll beat any plant that's growed in Cullerne." By the next morning the paper strip was entirely parted.
I'll jest fix up a scheme as'll do 'im a treat." He smiled broadly; and when Bob Topper smiled, the corners of his mouth seemed to almost meet at the back of his head. And as soon as the Saucy Sally had pitched and tossed her way up channel for she was light as a cork in ballast and dropped anchor a little way off Gravesend, Bob Topper sculled himself ashore.
But ye know he's dead, an' ye never can see him no more. He's a goner, an' ye're all alone, an' here's a man as'll take care on ye fur him; an' it does seem to me that if he was a reasonable man he'd feel obleeged for what I'm doin'."
'If so be as Tom goes, there'll be no one as'll take me in for less than three bob a week. Two bob a week, that's what I'll 'ave to feed me Two bob a week two bob a week! But if so be's I go with Tom, I'll 'ave to reg'lar sit down under he for me bread and butter. And he contemplated his son. "Where are you goin', then?" he said.
"You see, daddy," he said, "the doctor tells me you're to be kep' quiet, an' not allowed to talk, so in course you've got nothin' to do but lie still an' listen while I give 'ee the noos. So 'ere goes. An' don't you sit too near baby, mother, else you'll wake 'im up, an' we'll have a yell as'll put talkin' out o' the question. Well then "
Wouldn't have mattered so much if it'd had nobody but itself to consider, but unluckily the gentleman it belonged to happened to be screwed on to the top end of it, and of course he had to follow. They do say as how he's following it still poor beggar! Must be worn to a shadow by this time, I should think. But p'raps it ain't true after all. There are folks as'll say anything."
It caps me, that it do." "Wait a bit, my lad, and you'll see," cried the old gardener. "He's begun his games just as such a boy would, and afore long this here garden will be turned into such a wreck as'll make the doctor tear his hair, and wish as he'd never seen the young rascal. He's a bad un; you can see it in his eye. He's got bad blood in him, and bad blood allus comes out sooner or later.
I haven't forgotten what you did for me on board ship; and I'll serve ye still here or in the old country, till you can find one as'll suit you better." "Jacob, you're a good fellow," replied his master; "you shall be my servant, then, and we will go back to Old England together. I'll tell you just how it is.
Dicky Keats, Ned Berry, the Honourayble Blackwood: good men all and gluttons at it! but for the real old style stuff, ammer-and-tongs, fight to a finish, takin punishment and givin it, there ain't a seaman afloat as'll touch our old man." He spat over the side. "Yes, sir, when he went, I went along, and never regretted it never.
When he returned his face was white, the sweat hung on his forehead, and a trembling shook his whole body. "For Gawd's sake, Father, leave the house at onct!" he whispered in great agitation. "There's a gang outside as'll pull the place dahn if I keep you."
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