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The Male Beaver has Six stones, two which Contanes a Substance much like finely pulverised bark of a pale yellow Colour and not unlike tanner's ooz in Smell, these are Called the bark Stones or castors; two others, which like the bark stone resemble Small blatters, contain a pure oil of a Strong rank disagreable Smell, and not unlike train Oil, these are Called the Oil Stones, and two others of Generation.
But the last time ye left me upo' this same stule, it was wi' that cry o' the Apostle o' the Gentiles i' my lug 'Wauk up, thoo that sleepest! For even the deid wauk whan the trumpet blatters i' their lug!" "It seems to me that there the Apostle makes allusion to the condition of the Gentile nations, asleep in their sins!
Mackenzie hoped to the deepest cranny of his heart that it was so. "He seems to get a good deal of humor out of working here for his board and tobacco," Mackenzie said. "Yes, he blatters a good deal about it," said Dad. "'I'll take another biscuit on Tim Sullivan, he says, and 'here goes another smoke on Tim. I don't see where he's got any call to make a joke out of eatin' another man's bread."
To reef sails in smooth water is easy enough, but when the ship is pitching into the fast-rising seas and heeling over to the gale, with the wind whistling through the rigging, blocks rattling, ropes lashing about, the hard canvas trying to escape from one's grip, and blatters of rain and sleet and hail in one's face, it is no pleasant matter.
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