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An' that's leavin' out your thirty-odd shares in the Hannah Hoo, when she's for sale. Ship-auctions be chancey things in these days, an' private purchasers hard to find." "I never knew 'em when they weren't," said Captain Cai. "When d'ye pay off, by the way?" "Not till Saturday. There's no hurry.
Meanwhile you'll ha' crept up to near the house, ready to do yer bit as soon's ye hear yer friend movin'. It's chancey of course, but that's the sort o' trade it is. Better take this" Flitch brought something from his breast-pocket "in case the key's turned in that front door." "Thanks; I've got one. Now say it all again so that we have no misunderstandings."
"Now, kid, don't git chancey," Pop admonished uneasily. "Twenty-five is enough money to donate to Jeff." "That's right, kid. I like your nerve," Jeff cut in, emphasizing his approval with a slap on Bud's shoulder as he bent to lift Smoky's leg. "I've saw worse horses than this one come in ahead it wouldn't be no sport o' kings if nobody took a chance."
"Well," returned Henry, smiling too, "let the other fellow take the chances that's dad's motter." "Yes. And the 'chancey' fellow skims the cream of things every time. No, sir!" declared the young fellow, "I'm going to be among the cream-skimmers, or I won't be a farmer at all." So the plow was put into the bottom-land Wednesday and put in deep.
She pointed her finger at the old man, who had now gotten into his Sunday suit and had a bandage on his head. "Now, tell me, Dusty Miller, what do you think about girls being of some use? Isn't Ruth as good as any boy?" "She sartainly kep' me from drownin' as good as any boy goin'," admitted the old man. "But that was only chancey, as ye might say.
He still pursued the same tantalizing course of action, and Commodore Chancey became completely disheartened, when the Scourge of eight, and the Hamilton of nine guns, in endeavouring to escape from the British, capsized under a press of sail, and went down, all hands perishing, except sixteen who were picked up by the boats of the opposing squadron.
"No, sir, I hain't; nor yet no mother never had no fathers nor mothers, as I knows on, an' wot's more, I don't want any. They're a chancey lot, is fathers an' mothers most of 'em. Better without 'em altogether, to my mind. Tother foot, sir." Looking down with a benignant smile at this independent specimen of humanity, the captain obeyed orders.
"A quarter dash it is," Jeff agreed derisively as Bud turned to answer the summons of the music which was beginning again. The racing enthusiasts lingered outside, and Bud smiled to himself while he whirled Honey twice around in an old-fashioned waltz. He had them talking about him, and wondering about his horse. When they saw Smoky they would perhaps call him a chancey kid.
'Sir William thinks he is somewhere near Festubert? My hat, the Lanchesters have been having a hot time there! funny, isn't it? But they'll be moved to an easier job soon. They're always in luck the Lanchesters funny, I call it? what? I wouldn't worry if I were you. Your husband's got through this all right mightn't have another such show for ages. These things are awful chancey funny, isn't it?
But the American Commodore Chancey, generously paroled him, and suffered him to retain the plate. Unable to remain longer inactive, General Dearborn, in command of the American army of the north, approached Lower Canada.
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