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"We cawn't keep the nasty things from singin'," said the old man apologetically. "Why should you?" I asked. "Huh, mon! but they sing sacred songs, and chaunts, and a' that, and say all together from twenty rooms, a hundred times a day, 'Aws ut wuz in th' beginnin, uz now awn ever shawl be, worl' wi'out end, Aamen. It's not right. I've told Mr. Jackson. Listen now, didn't I tell ye?"
They set up an awful holler when they see the bear first one they'd ever smelled, I reckon and the little feller crawled up in some forks and watched things, cautious, while they leaped about, bayin' most fierce and blood-curdlin'. "'How you goin' to get him down? says I. "'I'll shoot him in the lower jaw, says the Britisher, 'so he cawn't bite the dogs. It 'll give 'em cawnfidence.
"Cawn't 'elp it," said the man. "What makes you," continued Mr. Lavender, "pause here with your job half finished? It is not the hill which keeps you back, for you are at the top, and your horses seem rested." "Yes," said the old man, with another contortion of his face, "they're rested leastways, one of 'em."
I've run more diamonds into the States, in one way or another, in my time, than you ever pinched out of the shirt-front of a toff on the Empire Prom., before they made the graft too hot for you and you came to take lessons from me in the gentle art of living easy." "Oh, cut that, cawn't you?"
"Confeound the fellow," the young Englishman was saying, "I've discharged him. I cawn't re-engage him, ye kneow! We cawn't have a man abeout who gets drunk, y' kneow it's too bloody proveoking, Majah." "But the poor fellow's family, Saulisbury." "Oh, hang the fellow's family," laughed Saulisbury. "We are not a poorhouse, y' kneow or a house for inebriates.
"Stop a bit, Barney," he said. He beckoned Rory to his side. "Tell them," he said between his gasps, "not to spoil their supper for me. I cawn't heat my share, but I guess perhaps I hearned it." "And that you did, lad," cried Rory. "No man better, and I'll tell them." The men who were standing near and who had heard Ben's words broke out into admiring expletives, "Good boy, Benny!"
At first Hi thought 'e was looking at my window and Hi stepped back, not wishing to compromise a lady like Hemmy that being the 'ousemide's name across the wall, sir." "What was this man doing?" "Hi cawn't 'ardly tell, sir. 'E looked and 'e made some motions. There seemed a light on 'is window too; in fact, all between the two 'ouses seemed quite bright at the time, what with 'im and what with me.
"'Aven't I just bin sayin' so?" aggressively. "That's just 'ow it stands. She won't go." He ignored Nan's exclamation of dismay and renewed his investigation of the engine. "No," he said at last, straightening himself. "I cawn't get you to Paddington or anyw'ere else for the matter o' that!" He spoke with a stubborn unconcern that was simply maddening. "Then get me another taxi quick!" said Nan.
I sez to John, sez I, 'I cawn't do no 'ousekeepin' with all 'em children 'bout my feet. An', bless their 'earts! it's all I kin do to put the bread in their mouths an keep the rags on their backs. But John sez to me, sez 'e, 'Don't yeh worry, lass, 'bout the rags. Keep 'em full, sez 'e, 'a full belly never 'eeds a bare back, sez 'e. That's 'is way.
Gray was furious when she heard of it their making use of her Lord in such a way but Lord Harold just swallowed his big Adam's apple with a gulp or two, and said: "'Pon honor, it's a blawsted scheme, you know; but I'm jolly sure I'd make a bleddy ass of myself. I cawn't act, you know." The ninny! You know he thinks Gray really can.
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