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The notes of the nasal orchestra were rising and falling upon his ear, and a new idea suggested itself. "Yes, yes; the rascals must have been getting boozy. Well, it's none of my business I'll be off;" and off he went. No sooner was he out of sight, than nearly all started to their feet, and a hearty laugh ensued. Like myself, most of them had been watching the event from under a sly eyelid.
But he sat drinking with me, and every now and then got out of the room, when he'd stop away for perhaps a quarter of an hour at the time." "Did he mention the opal brooch again?" "No," said Jessop, after reflection, "he didn't. But he got so drunk that he began to show fight, as he always did when boozy, though a timid chap when sober.
On this, the most benign day that ever dawns upon the world, was he led into these endless wastes of forest to be terrified by the "harnts"? Suddenly those voices from the earth again! One was singing a drunken catch, it broke into falsetto, and ended with an unmistakable hiccup. Rick's blood came back with a rush. "I hev never hearn tell o' the hoobies gittin' boozy!" he said with a laugh.
An' 't is awnly your bigness of heart, as wouldn't hurt a beetle, makes you speak kind of the boozy auld sweep. I'll soon shaw un wheer he's out if he thinks you 'm tinkering arter him!" "He couldn't bring an action for breach, or anything o' that, could he?" "At his time of life! What Justice would give ear to un? An' the shame of it!" "Perhaps he misunderstood. You men jump so at a conclusion."
It was about half-past ten, and they were not merry, but a trifle boozy and stupid. Zachariah called for a pint of beer and some bread and cheese, and asked if he could have a bed. The man who served him didn't know; but would go and see.
It was the prettiest little bear cub that ever woke on its mossy lair in the woods. Now it came shuffling down in a boozy way to take its morning bath. It seemed but half awake; and Skull-Splitter imagined that it was a trifle cross, because its mother had waked it too early.
"I t'ought you'd see de p'int w'en I got it out right," said The Croak. "How you do somedings like dot?" "Dat aint fer me to say," The Croak diffidently remarked. "But dey do tell me dat dat McCafferty has a grudge agin Boozy, an if you wants me ter ask him ter drop in yere an hev a talk wid ye, I'll do it." Mr. Bockerheisen did not fail to express the satisfaction he would have in seeing Mr.
Runt the chaplain woke up from his boozy slumbers; and little Bullingdon, starting up and drawing his little sword, said, 'Don't be afraid, Miss Amelia: if it's footpads, I am armed. The young rascal had the spirit of a lion, that's the truth; as I must acknowledge, in spite of all my after quarrels with him.
We worked our way past the men who were standing about, and with several of these my father shook hands solemnly. Leaning against the wall near the window was a big, red-faced man, whom I knew as a Copperhead. He had been drinking, evidently, for he was making boozy efforts to stand very straight.
"Dey's two coveys runnin' fer Alderman over on de Eas' Side. One of 'em's Boozy you knows Boozy. He keeps a place in de Bowery. De udder's a Dutchman, name er Bockerheisen. Boozy's de County Democracy man, Bockerheisen's de Tammany. Less git up a 'sociashun. You'll be president an' do de talkin. I'll be treasurer an' hol' de cash."
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