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But in spite of my declaration she insisted that it must taste "murky" to one who was accustomed to better things. The ham was never too good in Liverpool, but she 'oped that it wasn't "reesty." I solemnly declared that it was not "reesty." But Mrs. Chaffin and Mr.
Heathcote had another of his acute attacks of appreciation, and became almost a subject for sal volatile and burnt feathers, Mr. Ramsay saying good-naturedly, "What a fellow you are for chaffin', Ketchum! Just you hook it out of this, will you, and let us get on with this? One and two and a kick, you say, Miss Brown? I am such a duffer I can't get the kick."
"Eat your 'grub' on the course," said Algernon. "Ne'er a hamper to take up nowheres, is there, sir?" "Do you like the sight of one?" "Well, it ain't what I object to." "Then go fast, my man, and you will soon see plenty." "If you took to chaffin' a bit later in the day, it'd impart more confidence to my bosom," said the cabman; but this he said to that bosom alone.
"But about one o'clock, sir, he come in the yard. He 'ad been at the public 'ouse, sir, and he was hummin'. First he went among the carvers, talking Hitalian to 'em and making 'em laugh, though he was in a precious bad humor hisself. By and by he come over to where me and my mates was, and began chaffin' us, which we didn't mind it, seeing he was 'eavy in the 'ead.
'T got so that th' noise o' th' looms went on in my head night 'n' day, allus thud, thud. 'N' hot days, when th' hands was chaffin' 'n' singin', th' black wheels 'n' rollers was alive, starin' down at me, 'n' th' shadders o' th' looms was like snakes creepin', creepin' anear all th' time. They was very good to me, th' hands was, very good.
I have said that the picture bore a strong resemblance to Hester Chaffin, but her face contained only a suggestion of that fine quality which was so strongly presented in my cousin's ideal. My uncle's fortune, as described in his will, amounted to nearly $250,000.
One way an' another I must 'ave punished a good few bottles of it while we was in the bay comin' ashore every night or so. Chaffin across the bar like, once when we were alone, 'Mrs. 'Oh, thank you, Sergeant Pritchard, she says, an' put 'er hand up to the curl be'ind 'er ear. Remember that way she had, Pye?" "I think so," said the sailor. "Yes, 'Thank you, Sergeant Pritchard, she says.
At my urgent request, he completed the head whose resemblance to Hester Chaffin had so startled and amazed me the night I saw it first, and he regarded it with fonder interest than he was wont to bestow upon the work of his brush.
Jeames, holding up to his face a pot of porter almost as big as the young potifer himself. "Vill you now, Big'un, or von't you?" Spitfire said. "If you're thirsty, vy don't you say so and squench it, old boy?" "Don't ago on making fun of me I can't abear chaffin'," was the reply of Mr.
"They've all been boys," said Mrs. Chaffin, "since Hetty was born." I thought it strange that the H in her daughter's name was the only one that the good woman had shown the ability to manage. "Hetty is the only one of the lot that takes to books," she continued. "The head master told me she will make a good scholar, and dear a me! she does nothing but read books from mornin' till night."
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