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He turned the carcase over; the loose hide fell back, and the light shone on a distinct brand. White as a sheet went Mary's face, and her hand trembled so that she nearly let the candle fall. "What are you adoin' of now?" shouted her father. "Hold the candle, carn't you? You're worse than the old woman." "Father! the beast is branded! See! What does PB stand for?" "Poor Beggar, like myself.
Her father went on with his work, and occasionally grumbled at her for not holding the candle right. "Where did you buy the steer, father?" she asked. "Ask no questions and hear no lies." Then he added, "Carn't you see it's a clear skin?" She had a keen sense of humour, and the idea of a "'clear skin' steer" would have amused her at any other time. She didn't smile now.
By this arrangement he could lie on the floor, as safe as you please, and steer according to orders sung up by the old skipper who, stationed below with a shaving mirror suggesting a trench periscope would take his bearings without showing any portion of his face. It was a nice piece of work. "One carn't be too cautious, sir," he explained.
Sell 'em out to hulls, by clam!" he called after me. "I ain't so mean 't I carn't help a young man along a little."
"Ain't never felt so well in me life," said the man. "I was saying to a pal this morning 'ow well I felt." "Do you feel as if you were drunk?" asked Sarakoff tentatively. "Well, sir, now you put it that way, I feel as if I'd 'ad a good glass of beer. Not drunk, but 'appy." "Are you naturally cheerful?" "I carn't say as I am, sir.
"I talked to a sponge fisher who came by a while back, sir, and he said a schooner yacht sailed about midnight, or maybe later; north, he said. But she carn't have got far, as there hasn't been hardly any air stirring all night till this little one now. If it wasn't so heavy off there we might see her, I farncy. The mate's aloft, sir."
"The keer ob dis place an' all de man'gin' o' dem noisy boys an' lazy niggahs am too much 'sponsibility fur sich young shouldahs ez hern. Ole Dilsey does whut she kin to spar' de precious chile frum worry an' care; but one ole niggah lak me carn't do ebbrythin'; an' 'tain't no wondah Miss Betsy's gittin' pale an' peeky an' low-spereted."
Hardy admonished the joker lethargically, but with a certain degree of malevolence in his weary tones. "Aw, chack it, Mac!" he drawled. "W'y carn't yer let th' bleedin' bird alone? Yer know 'e don't like that bein' done t'im. Jes' 'awk t'im tellin' yer as much!"
I declare you Northerns seem to think all the world are asleep except yourselves; howsomever, I von't quarrel with you you're a goodish sort of chap in your way, and so long as I keep the swag, we carn't get far wrong.
"And the Colonel will pay for them, I presume?" said the Yorkshireman, looking at Mr. Jorrocks. "I carn't," said Mr. Jorrocks in an undertone; "I'm nearly cleaned out, and shall be in Short's Gardens before I know where I am, unless I hold better cards this evening than I've done yet. Somehow or other, these French are rather too sharp for me, and I've been down upon my luck ever since I came.
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