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But her man was pressed aboard ship and killed, and she starved along of her babby, though she did all she could to live for the child's sake and when it died, she well, look at her now, poor soul!" "The world would seem a very hard and cruel place!" I exclaimed. "Sometimes, brother 'specially for the poor and friendless.
"Yes, there are," I said from where I had climbed over the deepest part by clinging to the hurdles, "I can see them." "Oh no, you can't, my lad. You'd like me to come splashing through the water there for you to laugh at me, but it won't do. There isn't a single fish in the place, only old Bigley old Babby as his father calls him. I say, Sep, what a game! Did you ever see such a babby?"
To this request Kitty made no response, and while Jean was wondering why she did not answer, Sam entered the room, and came close to the fire. "Beeg chief want see babby," he announced. "How is he?" the girl asked, rising to her feet. "Seek here," and Sam placed his hand to his side. "Much seek. Bad!"
They never stops to think 'Can I swim? but in you goes, up the stairs that wouldn't hold the weight of a new-born babby, and right through the raging flames." "Oh, dear!" cried Henrietta, "that's just what Cook and all kinds of people will say. But it was the front stairs that were on fire. We only went up the back stairs, and they weren't burning at all." The barge-master smiled in reply.
I'm sure he never ought to be out of bed, with his rheumatics. It's enough to give him his death. Sam Zeally says that General Rochambeau is looking after him, as tender as a mother with a babby." Polly mimicked Sam's pronunciation, and laughed. She was Somerset-born herself, but had seen service in Bath. "Where is Mr. Endymion?"
I haven't got a father, ma'am, who has got a house over his head for me and my babies. Only think if you was turned out into the street with your babby, as I am like to be." "I have no baby," said the wretched woman through her tears and sobs. "Haven't you, Mrs. Lopez? Oh dear!" exclaimed the soft-hearted woman, reduced at once to pity. "How was it then?" "He died, Mrs.
'But look how cold it was last winter, he says. 'Th' crops need weather like this, he says. I'd like to have hit him with a chair. Sundah night I wint over to see him. He was sittin' out in front, with a babby on each knee. 'Good avnin', says I. 'Good avnin', he says. 'This is th' divvle's own weather, I says. 'I'm suffocatin'. ''Tis quite a thaw, he says.
We have said that David Bright was not by nature given to the melting mood, but his eyes grew dim and his voice faltered at this point and it is not improbable that there would have been a regular break-down, if Joe's blessed babby had not suddenly come to the rescue in the nick of time with one of her unexpected howls.
"'Faix, Mam, says the man, a Hirishman, 'and the divvle a babby have I seen this day except thirteen of my own and you're welcome to any one of THEM, and kindly. "'As if HIS babby was equal to ours, as my darling Mary Hann said, afterwards. All the station was scrouging round us by this time pawters & clarx and refreshmint people and all.
"Well, you see, mister, the way of it is just this," explained old Maskell, who considered the question as addressed more especially to him: "Bob was took off a wrack on the Maplin when he was a mere babby, the only one saved; found him wrapped up warm and snug in one of the bunks on the weather side of the cabin with the water surging up to within three inches of him; so ever since he's been old enough to understand he've always insisted as it was his duty, by way of returning thanks, like, to take the look-out when a wrack may be expected.
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