United States or Belize ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Tom might have stood it very well, if another chap hadn't begun calling on Kitty about this time. He used to go airly in the evening, and not come out of the house till after midnight, so that one might belave his visits were welcome. This made Tom feel mighty bad, and so he hid behind the wall and waylaid the chap one night.
Mister Brixton, there's more blood on an' about ye, I do belave, than yer whole body could howld." Before an answer could be returned, Fred Westly, having heard Paddy's shout, came running up. "Oh! Tom, Tom," he cried, eagerly, "are you hurt? Can you walk? Can you run? The whole camp is out after you." "Indeed?" replied the fugitive, with a frown.
"Splendid!" said Mary. "I am so glad! And I don't belave you two stupids know!" "You niver can tell by lookin' at me what I know," said Jimmy. "Whin I look the wisest I know the least. Whin I look like a fool, I'm thinkin' like a philosopher." "Give it up," said Dannie promptly. You would not catch him knowing anything it would make Mary's eyes shine to tell. "Sap is running!" announced Mary.
I belave the old gintleman rather liked to have us be interruptin' him, for he laid bates for us wee ones, and ye see by that manes one story sometimes kept him going for a waak. Heaven bliss the owld gintleman he had a habit of stopping in the middle of an exciting part and lighting his dudheen, and then when he'd begin again, he'd skip over a part on purpose to make us ax him a question "
Whin the cattle are on clover it raises so thick." Jimmy speared a piece of salt-rising bread crust soaked in ham gravy made with cream, and said: "I wish I could bring that Thrid Man home with me to one meal of the real thing nixt time he strikes town. I belave he would injoy it. May I, Mary?" Mary's face flushed slightly. "Depends on whin he comes," she said.
Katy folded her arms, tilted her chin at an unusually aspiring angle, and deliberately sniffed. "Don't ye be lettin' yourself belave your own foolishness," she said. "I ain't done with me exhibit yet.
Sure yous come from the North, and don't belave in keeping the naigers in bondage?" "To be sure not." "Well, then, would yous help a naiger out of throuble, if yous could as well as not?" "I sartainly wish 'em well; but the Scripture says 'Honor the king, which means nothin' more nor less than 'obey the laws. Arter all, though, perhaps we ought not to mind wicked laws."
"Be the powers, but ye know little of Injin devilments, as I've larned 'em from Soot Simpson. How do ye know but that's a thrick to make these Apaches belave that there's but a single Kiowa over there popping at them, when there may be half a hundred waiting for the chance to clean them out?" "Maybe that is Sut himself; you know you have been expecting him."
"That big white house there," said he, "right fornint ye, with the round top an' the staple all to wan side that's wan o' the chief mosques. It's somewhere about two hunderd year ould, more or less, an' was built by a slave a poor feller of a Genoese an', would you belave it, they kilt him for the shape he gave it! Ah, they're a bad lot intirely!
Ruth began to look a bit comforted, and Ellen went on, "I do belave from me soul, Miss Ruth, dear, that before you go to bed tonight you'll have word from your father. At any rate, you can't bring it any faster, nor help it one bit by worryin' about it.
Word Of The Day