United States or Mauritania ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
An enterprising druggist bought up the little fat left in the animal after its long winter's fast; and such was the demand among sensational people for gallipots of "grease of the bear that killed Cantin," that it seemed as if fashion had ordained the wearing of hair "on end."
I guess the Britisher can't seize her, because the 'Black Hawk' broke the treaty; can he?" And he gave a knowing jupe of his head, as much as to say, ain't that grand? "Now our new captain is a strait-laced sort of man, you see; but the cantin' fellow of a master you had on board before, warn't above a dodge of this kind.
Having been driven back by a tempest in their first attempt, and obliged to return to Plymouth, to repair the damages which they had suffered, they set sail again from thence on the 13th of December, 1577, and, on the 25th, had sight of cape Cantin, in Barbary, from whence they coasted on southward to the island of Mogador, which Drake had appointed for the first place of rendezvous, and on the 27th, brought the whole fleet to anchor, in a harbour on the mainland.
They gives me a wipin' for it, but there, they can't 'arf do it. And they says if I want my shillin' I can go and get it from that cantin' son of a thief meanin' you, governor what kep' me. Bless you, they did jaw, them two, but I give that 'Orksbury a topper, which I owed 'im one afore." This spirited address on the part of our young friend I need hardly say interested us all deeply.
I have to look big and talk big the whole blessed time, and I am tired of it. It ain't nateral to me; and, besides braggin' and repudiatin' at the same time, is most as bad as cantin' and swearin'. It kinder chokes me. I thought it all though, and said it all to myself. 'And, sais I, 'take your time, Sam; you can't do it, no how, you can fix-it. You must wait your time, like other folks.
Yo impident little toad! And in a perfect frenzy of rage he shook what she held. But Louie for naturally it was Louie wrenched herself away, and stood confronting him, panting, but exultant. 'I freetened 'em! just didn't I? Cantin humbugs! "Jenny Crum! Jenny Crum!" And, mimicking the voice of the leader, she broke again into an hysterical shout of laughter.
I heard of these mysterious doings from people to whom he was vain and indiscreet enough to boast of them. He continually wrote letters to Madame de Bourgogne, and to Madame de Maintenon, but more frequently to the former. Madame Cantin was their agent; and I know people who have seen letters of hers in which she assured Maulevrier, in the strongest terms, that he might ever reckon on the Duchess.
"And does it make the wind blow no'theast by no'th and and like that?" "Eh? Make the wind blow how?" "I mean does it make the wind blow different ways, no'theast by no'th and cantin' 'round to the sou-east and and those ways? Captain Hedge has got a fish up on his barn that used to do that, but now it won't 'cause he cal'lates it's rusted fast.
On the south of that island, we may follow the current, in its direction south-east and south-south-east towards the coast of Africa, between Cape Cantin and Cape Bojador. In those latitudes a vessel becalmed is running on the coast, while, according to the uncorrected reckoning, it was supposed to be a good distance out at sea.
"'I guess there was plenty of room for it, sais I, 'onless that neighbourhood has much improved since I knowed it last. "'It's a sweet thing, sais he. 'Have you ever "made profession," Mr. Slick? "'Come, sais I to myself, 'this is cuttin' it rather too fat. I must put a stop to this. This ain't a subject for conversation with such a cheatin', cantin', hippocrytical skunk as this is.
Word Of The Day