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"And so would you be, lad," returned the coxswain, in a low voice, as he advanced his mouth to his comrade's ear, "if you was in my fix. I've got to be spliced this day before twelve, an' the church is more'n two miles inland!" "That's awk'ard," returned Slag, with a troubled look. "But, I say, Bob, you've kep' this uncommon close from us all eh? I never heerd ye was to be spliced so soon."
He'll tell you and, likely enough, with truth as he never act'ally wrote what's printed." "You leave him to me," answered 'Bias grimly, gulping his tea and preparing to sally forth. "An' you might remember to leave the child outside. If a lady's name is to be handled in the discussion, you understand. . . . Besides which, witnesses are apt to be awk'ard.
It happened so to-night now that is a queer thing I minded that I hadn't untied my horse; he's a trick of being untied at night, and won't sleep well if he ain't; and mother wanted me to let him alone 'cause of the awful storm, but I couldn't go to my bed in peace till I had seen him to his'n. So that's how my lantern came to be going to the barn in such an awk'ard night as this."
Tulliver, "for my children are so awk'ard wi' their aunts and uncles. Maggie's ten times naughtier when they come than she is other days, and Tom doesn't like 'em, bless him! though it's more nat'ral in a boy than a gell. And there's Lucy Dean's such a good child, you may set her on a stool, and there she'llsit for an hour together, and never offer to get off.
"And, besides, Ethel don't know where you've been," continued Mr. Spriggs. "We told 'er that you had gone to Australia. She's going to marry a very partikler young chap a grocer and if he found it out it might be awk'ard." Mr. Price closed his eyes again, but the lids quivered. "It took 'im some time to get over me being a bricklayer," pursued Mr. Spriggs. "What he'd say to you "
"You made my heart seem to jump into my mouth." "Did I, lad? Well, it was awk'ard. I was scared lest I should knock you off. Felt just as I did when the chain broke, and you could see the link opening, and a big sugar-hogshead threatening to come down. All right now, my lad. Let's get on down. Think we're birds' nesting, Mas' Don, and it'll be all right."
Then, once more aloud, "We may as well drink what's in the bottle, sir." "But it's gone, Samson," cried Fred, from the end of the tunnel. "Gone, sir? The rabbits couldn't have " "And your jerkin is gone, too." "Hooray! Then the poor old " Samson checked his jubilant speech before it was half ended, and continued, in a grumbling tone "That's just like Nat I told you how awk'ard he could be."
Only yesterday he gives a duck down to cut the leaf of his book just at an awk'ard moment, and of course in goes the point of the scissors." "Serve him right!" said cook. "And what do you think he said?" "Oh, don't ask me." "Nothing; and I dabbed the place and put a bit o' black court-plaister on his ear, and I don't hardly believe he even knew of it." "I'm not surprised," said cook indignantly.
"Hain't had such a good tussle I dunno when." "Bill's considered ruther an awk'ard customer," remarked Dick. "I guess he hain't had no such handlin' fer quite a while." "Sho!" exclaimed Mr. Harum. "The' ain't nothin' to him but wind an' meanness. Who was that feller with him?" "Name 's Smith, I believe," replied Dick.
"Oh, Jem, don't say you are in danger." "Not I, my lad, if you don't want me to; but it is awk'ard. Stand clear," he shouted. "I'm coming down. No, I arn't," he said directly after, as he made a tremendous effort to reach a tough stem below, failed, and then dropped and caught it, and swung first by one hand and then by two. "I say, Mas' Don, I thought I was gone."
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