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You never knew wot it was to go 'ungry, to cry yerself asleep with yer little belly gnawin' an' gnawin', like a rat inside yer. It carn't come right. If I was President of the United Stytes to-morrer, 'ow would it fill my belly for one time w'en I was a kiddy and it went empty? "'Ow could it, I s'y? I was born to sufferin' and sorrer. I've had more cruel sufferin' than any ten men, I 'ave.
"'I carn't 'elp it, he went on; 'I 'ave to live two lives. 'Arf my time I'm a stuck-up prig, as orter be jolly well kicked "'At which times, I interrupted, 'I have heard you express some extremely uncomplimentary opinions concerning 'Arries. "'I know, he replied, in a voice betraying strong emotion; 'that's where it's so precious rough on me.
But once in a long while there'll be a howler, and that's what the barometer is trying to tell us now. As we have only harf a crew on each yacht I think we'd better make a bee-line in. 'Twill take us twenty miles north of where we were, and those fellows carn't see us."
"Was it you made fast that fore royal, last watch?" "Yes, Sir." "How's that it's broken adrift?" "Carn't say, Sir." "Well, it has, and you'd better jump aloft and shove the gasket round it again. And mind you make a better job of it this time." "i, i, Sir," said Tom, and followed the rest of us forrard. Reaching the fore rigging, he climbed into it, and began to make his way leisurely aloft.
"'No, he said, after cogitating for a minute, 'carn't say I do; I never can remember much about Smythe. He allers seems to me like a bad dream. "'Well, you met her, I said; 'I'm positive. I introduced you to her myself, and she confided to me afterwards that she thought you a most charming man.
"Carn't wait, ma'am time's hup" and just at this moment a two-horse coach is heard stealing up the street, upon which the coachman calls to the horse-keepers to "stand clear with their cloths, and take care no one pays them twice over," gives a whistling hiss to his leaders, the double thong to his wheelers, and starts off at a trot, muttering something about, "cuss'd pair-'oss coach, convict-looking passengers," observing confidentially to Mr.
"We're arfter her hard, sir," he said, "and have been drawing up farst this hour gone. We'll be in hailing distance in another two hours, or less." "There's a good wind?" "Fair, sir. The mate, who's aloft, says that for some reason she's hauled down everything but mains'l and jib, and carn't be making any speed to speak of. Still, she's going along. We've quite some canvas set.
He was soon to learn that the most conspicuous and attractive thing about a British sailor or soldier is his disposition to take things as he finds them and not to be greatly concerned about anything. "Hi, Fritzie," he added, addressing one of the soldiers, "are we for Wittenberg or carn't yer s'y?" The guard paid no attention. "It's no difference," said one of the men in oilskins.
"Know anybody there?" asked the landlord. "Well, not exactly," said the cook; "I carn't say as I know 'im. I'm after a party o' the name o' Dunn." "You won't get much out of him," said the landlady, who had just joined them. "He's a close un, he is." The cook closed his eyes and smiled knowingly. "There's a mystery about that man," said the landlady.
"You'll need a fair protection, sir, as they'll be shooting from the portholes," Gates said. "And we carn't fire back at the portholes because of the lady!" "Righto! But the man at their wheel's our meat, and anyone else who comes to take his place. "Suppose they send the Princess out, herself, to steer?" Monsieur asked. The suggestion gave me a turn.
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