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"Why, to be sure it was," I answered, "a Scotch piper, as I told you, and " "Peter," said the Ancient, tapping his snuff-box, "it weren't no ghost, then ay or no." "No," said I, "nothing but a " "Peter!" said the Ancient, nodding solemnly, "Peter, I 'ates ye!" and, turning sharp about, he tottered away upon his stick. "So that's it!" said I, staring after the old man's retreating figure.
"That 'ulkin' big Dopper you was walkin' out along of, when I " "Walt! It was Walt?" She shuddered and grew pale. "That's the bloke I means. I 'ad to 'ave 'im," explained W. Keyse, "or 'e'd 'ave 'ad me. So I sent 'im in. With my one, two, an' the Haymaker's Lift. Right in the middle of 'is dirty weskit. F'ff!" He blew a sigh. "Now it's out, an' I suppose you 'ates me?" She panted.
Around this toothpick-holder are placed glass fruit-trays from which rise pyramids of oranges, lansons, ates, chicos, and even mangos in spite of the fact that it is November. On wide platters upon bright-hued sheets of perforated paper are to be seen hams from Europe and China, stuffed turkeys, and a big pastry in the shape of an Agnus Dei or a dove, the Holy Ghost perhaps.
We'll be rich men, we'll be. I 'ates t' think 'ow rich 'im an' me'll be!" But the Doctor was too busy hurrying the mechanics in their repairs to heed the words of the excited engineer.
"It's not the hard times I'm speakin' of now," said Ellen; "they're bad enough, goodness knows; but it's the bother we have all the time, and we can't tell how or why. Half the time the cow gives no milk, and when she does, you can make no butther wid it. The pig, the crathur, won't get fat; he ates everything he can reach, and still he looks like a basket wid a skin over it.
He hangs there through hundreds of years he has spoken with his great voice of God! so that they heard him for miles and miles across the land " "Maryette I am so sorry for you " "Oh! Oh! My carillon of Nivelle! My beloved carillon!" "Maryette, dear! My little Carillonnette " "No my heart is broken " "Vooz ates tray, tray belle "
I says, 'You should ha' sent me to school a bit more, I says, 'an' then I could ha' read i' the books like fun, an' kep' my head cool an' empty. Lors, she's fine an' comfor'ble now, my old mother is; she ates her baked meat an' taters as often as she likes. For I'm gettin' so full o' money, I must hev a wife to spend it for me. But it's botherin, a wife is, and Mumps mightn't like her."
"Leastways," he said reminiscently, looking at me out of the corner of his eye, "I do seem to remember something about a stawf car bein' in 'ere this morning when yours was" and he smiled disarmingly. "Look 'ere," he continued, "you forget all about it, Miss. I 'ates to see yer puffing at the tyres with them old-fashioned ones, and anyway," with a grin, "that car's in Abbeville now!"
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