Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 5, 2025
"Best pull yourself together, Gaffer, or bad-hearted folks might say you was bosky-eyed. That ban't no novelty anyway, but 't is early yet to be drunk just three o'clock by the church." Bosky-eyed = intoxicated. Mr. Blee marched on without waiting for a reply.
To think o' such a Methuselah as him aulder than the century fillin' the eye o' that full-bodied " "It's a black lie blacker 'n hell an' if't was anybody but you brought the news I'd hit un awver the jaw!" burst out Mr. Blee, in a fury. "He tawld me hisself. He's tellin' everybody hisself. It comed to a climax to-day.
Thus matters stood for many a day; but, after awhile, when their former owner could no longer bear to be parted from them, he sent a letter to the Commander of the Faithful complaining to him of his own ardent love-longing for them and containing, amongst other contents, these couplets, "Captured me six, all bright with youthful blee; * Then on all six be best salams from me!
"Well, I doan't believe a word of it; an' I'll tell you this for your bettering, 'tis poor religion in you, Blee, to root into other people's troubles, like a pig in a trough; an' auld though you be, you 'm not tu auld to mind what it felt like when the blood was hot an' quick to race at the sight of a maid."
But wait till the birds and beasts and chiefs of the Jann come to do their homage to me and I will question them of it; peradventure, some one of them may be able to give us news of it and Allah Almighty shall make all things easy to thee. So Janshah homed with the hermit, until the day of the assembly, when all the birds and beasts and Jann came to swear fealty; and Yaghmus and his guest questioned them anent Takni, the Castle of Jewels; but they all replied, 'We never saw or heard of such a place. At this, Janshah fell a weeping and lamenting and humbled himself before the Most High; but, as he was thus engaged, behold, there flew down from the heights of air another bird, big of bulk and black of blee, which had tarried behind the rest, and kissed the hermit's hands.
Theer's some dark thought under it, I'll lay, or else he wants to come around 'e again." His master doubted not that Billy was dreaming, but he went aloft and looked to convince himself. In silence and darkness they watched Will at work. Then Mr. Blee asked a question as the miller turned to go. "What in thunder do it mean?" "God knaws, I doan't. The man or bwoy, or whatever you call un, beats me.
"Something's hurting me bad that I said what I said in the chamber, an' thought what I thought. God's nigher than us might think, minding what small creatures we be. I hope He'll forgive them words." "He's a peacock for eyes, as be well knawn," declared Mr. Blee. "An' He've got His various manners an' customs o' handlin' the human race.
Now, rising out of his brief midsummer madness, the man saw a ghost; and he greeted it with groan as bitter as ever wrung human heart. Miller Lyddon sat that night alone until Mr. Blee returned to supper. "Gert news! Gert news!" he shouted, while yet in the passage; "sweatin' for joy an' haste, I be!" His eyes sparkled, his face shone, his words tripped each other up by the heels.
Heavy snow had fallen, and moor-men, coming down from the highlands, declared it to lie three feet deep in the drifts. Now fine, sharp weather had succeeded the storm, and hard frost held both hill and vale. On Old Christmas Eve a party numbering some five-and-twenty persons assembled in the farmyard of Monks Barton, and Billy Blee, as master of the pending ceremonies, made them welcome.
"An' me, tu!" said Mr. Blee, with a fine disregard for his recent utterances. "I've teached the chap purty nigh all he knaws an' I ban't gwaine to turn on un now, onless 't is proved blue murder. An' that Chown 's a disgrace to his cloth; an' I'd pull his ugly bat's ears on my awn behalf if I was a younger an' spryer man."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking