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"He went off as spry as a boy, and as soon as he'd gorn the skipper started walking back'ards and for'ards agin, and raving. "'Let's 'ope as he's on'y amusing 'imself, I ses. "'Wait till you see 'er, ses the skipper; 'then you won't talk foolishness. "As it 'appened she came back with Uncle Dick that evening, to see 'im safe, and I see at once wot sort of a woman it was.
"Now look here; I'm not going to hyste you up, 'cause I can't, but I am going to swing you back'ards and for'ards like a pendulo till you can touch this 'ere bough where I am hanging, and then go on till you can get your legs round it and hold fast. Understand?" "Yes," panted Rodd. "Now then. Belay, and when you get hold you shout."
He cheats in everything, and cheats everybody. Thar's not an old woman in the country that don't say her prayers back'ards when she thinks of Jared Bunce. Thar's his tin-wares and his wood-wares his coffeepots and kettles, all put together with saft sodder that jest go to pieces, as ef they had nothing else to do. He's been at this business, in these diggings, now about three years.
"People as don't know how to load a cart spyles their hosses by loading for'ard, and getting all the weight on the hoss's back, or loading back'ards, and getting all the pull on the hoss's belly-band." "Yes, I see clearly now," I said. "Of course you do!
Are you tired of your life, sir, that you go a-trying to provoke three great neck-or-nothing chaps, that could keep on running over us, back'ards and for'ards, till we was dead, and then take our bodies up behind 'em, and drown us ten miles off? 'How far is it to London? inquired the same speaker. 'Why, from here, sir, answered John, persuasively, 'it's thirteen very easy mile.
I saw him walk up to the glass, and walk back from the glass. And when he'd got up to the glass he bowed, he did, and he went back'ards just so." Doubtless the presence of a lady was the active agent that prevented Crummins from doubling his body entirely, and giving more than a rapid indication of the posture of Mr. Tinman in his retreat before the glass.
'O, said Betty, 'if it had been that, she'd ha' been back'ards an' for'ards three or four times afore now; leastways, she'd ha' sent little Ann to let us know. 'There's summat up more nor usual between her an' the master, that you may depend on, said Kitty. 'I know those clothes as was lying i' the drawing-room yesterday, when the company was come, meant summat.
"I was tellin' her that the chief sent me over to say that your friend, the doctor, was seen last night at half-past two in the mornin', jagged up so tight he took two steps back'ards for every one he went ahead. The chief told me to tell you he was layin' under a tent somewhere, and that he'd be as safe as a calf in a barn. I hope that's what you wanted to know."
"I got one, fer keeps, any'ow," said Horace in the silence that followed the brief racket; "I see 'im drop 'is knife an' fall back'ards...." Perfect silence and then ... bang ... and a man standing beside Horace grunted, coughed, and scuffled on the ground. "Get down! Get down! You fools," cried Horace, who was himself standing up. "Wha's the good of a square sungar if you stands up in it?
'And how are we by this time? Mrs Gamp observed. 'We looks charming. 'We looks a deal charminger than we are, then, returned Mrs Prig, a little chafed in her temper. 'We got out of bed back'ards, I think, for we're as cross as two sticks. I never see sich a man. He wouldn't have been washed, if he'd had his own way. 'She put the soap in my mouth, said the unfortunate patient feebly.
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